Prosecutor denounces Spector as 'demonic maniac'

Описание: (26 Mar 2009) SHOTLIST
AP Television
Los Angeles, 25 March 2009
1. Wide courthouse building
2. Record producer and defendant Phil Spector arrives at courthouse building
3. Setup shot defense attorney Doron Weinberg addressing court
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Doron Weinberg/Defense Attorney:
"Phillip Spector is charged with murder. But the proof here is that he acted erratically after a suicide, which, of course, begs the question: what is the proper action after a suicide? There's no question he wasn't thinking strategically or clearly. Neither was ... this was a stunning event. But he did nothing, nothing, that in any fair and objective way suggests that he was demonstrating a consciousness of guilt, or that he was demonstrating that he was responsible for this terrible event."
5. Cutaway to Phil Spector
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Doron Weinberg/Defense Attorney:
"What the women's testimony is supposed to tell you is that Phillip has a pattern of conduct, that he lures women or brings women to some private place, his residence or hotel room, gets drunk, plies them with alcohol -- and then when they want leave, when they won't do his bidding, he pulls guns on them, and forces then to do what he wants them to do. This is a pattern, and you're supposed to conclude that this is what happened on this occasion. Now, first of all, even if you believed that these events occurred, as testified to -- 10, 15, 20, even 30 years earlier. Five or seven of them, depending on how many of them you believe actually occurred, you are supposed to believe that there is a pattern here. You will see there is not. And you're supposed to believe that because something happened four, five, six, seven, whatever number of times, in a period of 30 years, it must have happened again on this night."
7. Cutaway to Phil Spector
8. Closeup projector screen with image: "LANA DID NOT HOLD THE GUN" with pull out to reveal prosecuting attorney Alan Jackson
SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Jackson (English) Prosecuting Attorney:
"Lana Clarkson did not hold this gun. She could not have held the gun. She could not have shot herself. It simply can't work. The physics don't allow it. On top of everything else, on top of the fact that the man seated to my right walked out within minutes of the gunshot going off, and confessed, "I killed her."
9. Cutaway judge Larry Paul Fidler
10. Phil Spector standing in courtroom
STORYLINE
SPECTOR TRIAL DRAWS TO A CLOSE
The defense in Phil Spector's murder retrial argued Wednesday that jurors should not believe a pivotal story told by the music producer's chauffeur or the testimony of five women who claimed Spector confronted them with guns years before the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson in 2003.
In his closing argument, attorney Doron Weinberg sought to undermine the account of chauffeur Adriano De Souza, who claims the rock music legend emerged from his house holding a gun and declared, "I think I killed somebody."
Weinberg said De Souza may have mistaken Spector's words in a moment of great stress with the noise of a fountain distracting him. He also said that forensic evidence showed Spector could not have been carrying a gun at that point.
"De Souza believes he saw a gun because he heard a shot," he said.
Weinberg cited experts who cast doubt on the reliability of eyewitness testimony in times of stress.
He said investigators who interviewed De Souza never challenged or scrutinized his story because they wanted to believe it. He suggested that Spector may have actually told the chauffeur that there had been a killing and to "call somebody."

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