Now that the prosecution in the trial charging Phil Spector for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson has just about rested, the Spector Defense Dream Team has begun its work.The defense team has made no secret of the fact that their defense strategy of the diminutive music industry legend will center on their contention that Clarkson committed suicide. They will make this claim despite the testimony of four women (among many others over the decades) who testified that the pigmy producer had a history of waving loaded guns in their faces when they refused to spend the night with him, and the unshakable testimony by Spector's driver that after he heard the shooting, the midget music god told him that he thought that he "killed someone."
The defense will claim that Clarkson committed suicide because she was despondent over her failed acting career.
The defense clearly has missed the boat here. Rather than focus on her failed career as the motive for taking a bullet in the mouth, I think a much stronger defense would be that Clarkson clearly chose suicide over going to bed with the shrimp producer. I mean take a look at that picture! Wouldn't you?
