Phil Spector trial: Day 54

The prosecution wrapped up their case against Phil Spector yesterday, as the trial nears its climax.

Prosecutor Alan Jackson yesterday (September 5) accused the defence of buying scientific options and tailoring testimonies to support their case.

Defence Attorney Linda Kenney-Baden is expected to wrap up the defence argument today. Kenney-Baden yesterday came under fire from Jackson, as he pointed out that her husband Michael Baden, a forensics expert, had testified for the defence earlier in the case.

Jackson said that Baden was among several scientific experts who was paid to testify and implied that he geared his testimony towards helping his wife’s team.

"You hire enough lawyers to hire enough experts. If you pay someone enough money you can get them to wear a tutu in court. You can get them to say just about anything in court," Jackson said, according to the Associated Press.

Despite the fact that Kenny-Baden was ill throughout much of the case and thus absent from court, she will wrap up the case today. She is expected to maintain the defence team’s stance that Spector was standing too far away from actress Lana Clarkson to have shot her.

Music producer Spector is accused of shooting Clarkson at his Alhambra mansion in February 2003. The defence used scientific theories such as the distance blood can travel in order to prove that Spector was standing too far to have shot her, and that she in fact shot herself. They also called several witnesses to court who suggested that Clarkson was depressed and suicidal in the months leading up to her death.

The prosecution’s witnesses included five women who say that Spector had threatened them with a gun, and became violent when drinking.

The case is expected to be handed over to the jury tomorrow.

--By our New York staff.
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