Right: Phil Spector
Since his murder retrial began a month ago, Phil Spector has heard himself described as a gun-obsessed boor with a mouth filthier than a truck stop restroom and mood swings as sharp and scary as a dagger.
Surprisingly, this ugly portrait came courtesy not of prosecutors -- although they've offered their own unflattering character sketch -- but from the legendary music producer's own lawyer.
The approach, his lawyer says, is the only way to combat what the defense considers the most damning evidence against Spector in the fatal 2003 shooting of actress Lana Clarkson: the testimony of five women who say he terrorized them with guns under similar circumstances.
"The alternative is allowing the jury to believe Mr. Spector hates women and women only," his lawyer, Doron Weinberg, told an L.A. County Superior Court judge in November.
latimes.com
December 1, 2008
Since his murder retrial began a month ago, Phil Spector has heard himself described as a gun-obsessed boor with a mouth filthier than a truck stop restroom and mood swings as sharp and scary as a dagger.
Surprisingly, this ugly portrait came courtesy not of prosecutors -- although they've offered their own unflattering character sketch -- but from the legendary music producer's own lawyer.
In a strategic change from his first trial, which ended in a hung jury last year, the defense has acknowledged abusive, dangerous and unstable behavior by Spector and even provided jurors with details of such episodes. 
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Right: Lana Clarkson
The approach, his lawyer says, is the only way to combat what the defense considers the most damning evidence against Spector in the fatal 2003 shooting of actress Lana Clarkson: the testimony of five women who say he terrorized them with guns under similar circumstances.
"The alternative is allowing the jury to believe Mr. Spector hates women and women only," his lawyer, Doron Weinberg, told an L.A. County Superior Court judge in November.
It sounds like a stupid theory to me, but what do I know...
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