Second day of Phil Spector murder trial

Описание: (27 Apr 2007)
1. Various of Phil Spector accompanied by his wife Rachelle Short entering court
2. Wide of courtroom showing witness and judge
3. Spector and his defence team
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dorothy Melvin, Witness and former girlfriend of Spector:
"I kept screaming at him: 'What the F do you think you're doing?' and at that point he took his right hand that was holding the revolver and smacked me in the side of the head and said, 'I told you to get the F back in the house' and at that point I knew I was in trouble."
5. Wide of prosecution lawyers
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dorothy Melvin, Witness and former girlfriend of Spector:
"He told me to take my clothes off and go up to the third floor."
Prosecutor: "Take your clothes off?"
"Yes"
Persecutor: "Was he pointing the gun at you when he said this?"
"Yes he was''
Prosecutor: "What was your reaction to this?"
"I was crying, I said: 'Phil don't make me do this, I don't want to do this, why are you doing this?' I was sobbing, I was terrified."
7. Close up of Spector
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dorothy Melvin, Witness and former girlfriend of Spector:
"I looked in my side view mirror and I saw Phil coming down the driveway and then I heard the pump of a shotgun."
9. Close up of Spector listening
10. Medium of prosecution team
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bruce Cutler, Defence lawyer:
"Phillip did not shoot this woman (Lana Clarkson). He did not force a gun in this woman's mouth and he didn't do it, that's what the evidence will show and they can't change that by bringing in tall tales from other girls with whom he had relationships."
12. Close up of Spector
13. Wide of defence lawyers
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Linda Kenney-Baden, Defence lawyer: (Please note that soundbite is overlaid with shot of Spector listening)
"The science will tell you through the evidence of science that Phillip Spector did not shoot, did not shoot Lana Clarkson the decedent, that he did not hold the gun and that he did not pull the trigger."
15. Close up of judge
16. Wide of defence lawyers
STORYLINE:
Phil Spector's lawyers told jurors that scientific evidence would prove the music producer did not fatally shoot an actress in his home, while his former girlfriend testified he threatened her with a gun when they were dating.
67-year-old Spector, whose ''Wall of Sound'' transformed rock 'n' roll in the 1960s, met Lana Clarkson at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip, where she was a hostess.
Clarkson had the lead role in the Roger Corman 1980s cult film ''Barbarian Queen.''
The sometime actress agreed to accompany him on a chauffeur-driven ride to his home, where her body, with a
gunshot wound through the mouth, was found seated in the foyer early on February 3, 2003.
Prosecutors have been proceeding on a theory of ''implied malice,'' alleging Spector did not intend to kill Clarkson but caused her death by reckless behaviour and taking an extreme risk.
The prosecution's outline of its case largely previewed testimony that will be given by four women who claim that
in past years Spector threatened them with guns in scenarios similar to the Clarkson case.
The first witness, Dorothy Melvin testified on Thursday that while dating Spector in the 1990s, the producer had threatened her with a gun.
Melvin said that after several years of occasional dating she went to Spector's Pasadena home in 1993 and spent a pleasant evening in which he played the piano, danced with her and showed her memorabilia including a John Lennon guitar.
If convicted of second-degree murder, Spector could face 15 years to life in prison.

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