State can use past claims of gun play in Spector murder case
Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 7:33 pm
This SOB shot Lana Clarkson while she was on her knees begging for her life..... He is a habitual woman abuser who needs to be put out of his misery. Does his lawyers name RING a bell? Leslie Abramson?
Think Erik Menendez.
Leslie Abramson never met a felon she didn't like... As one client, a contract killer, puts it, "Leslie was so good. For a while there she even had me believing I didn't do it." Ms. Abramson has an astounding ability to excuse the inexcusable. Her heart-rending account of the Menendez parricide conveniently omits facts like the sons' spending spree after the parents' deaths, or the fact that there was never any physical evidence that they were sexually abused, as they claimed.
Here is a chronical of what happened before, during and after the murder.
http://judicial-inc.biz/Specter_Phil.htm
By Alex Veiga
ASSOCIATED PRESS 4:05 p.m. May 23, 2005
LOS ANGELES – A judge on Monday ruled prosecutors in the murder trial of Phil Spector can present evidence involving four incidents in which the famed music producer allegedly pulled guns on women.
The ruling came after Deputy District Attorney Doug Sortino argued that Spector used guns to threaten or intimidate people in "an ongoing course of conduct that happens again and again and again."
Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler acknowledged that allowing the evidence was "a dangerous path to go down." But he concluded the incidents seemed to illustrate the state's theory in the case.
Outside the courthouse, Spector insisted he "never pulled a gun on these women."
Fiddler refused to allow six other incidents to be introduced as evidence.
Spector is charged with murdering B-movie actress Lana Clarkson at his Alhambra mansion in early 2003. He has pleaded not guilty and is free on $1 million bail.
The producer is known for creating rock music's "wall of sound" recording technique in the 1960s that has influenced the Beatles, Bruce Springsteen and many others.
Each of the four incidents allowed by the judge occurred between 1988 and 1995 and involved women who claimed to have dated Spector and accused him of waving or pointing a gun at them.
In a 1991 incident, a woman identified in court documents as Melissa Grovesnor said she was visiting Spector and was forced to spend the night in a chair after she told him she wanted to return to her hotel room.
Spector pointed a gun at her head and began to yell and swear, prosecutors allege.
The three other incidents cleared by Fidler involved women identified in court filings as Stephanie Jennings, Dianne Ogden and Dorothy Melvin.
Defense attorney Bruce Cutler argued that none of the allegations were true and dismissed the women as celebrity-chasing "acolytes and gold diggers" out for publicity.
"They are not victims of any crime and we know that because they filed no criminal action," Cutler told the court.
He also warned that discussing the incidents during trial could prejudice the jury against Spector.
Among the incidents excluded by Fidler were two cases from the 1970s that led to charges against Spector.
In 1972, the producer pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor crime of carrying a loaded firearm in a public place and was given a year of probation. In 1975, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of brandishing a firearm and was given two years of probation.
Think Erik Menendez.
Leslie Abramson never met a felon she didn't like... As one client, a contract killer, puts it, "Leslie was so good. For a while there she even had me believing I didn't do it." Ms. Abramson has an astounding ability to excuse the inexcusable. Her heart-rending account of the Menendez parricide conveniently omits facts like the sons' spending spree after the parents' deaths, or the fact that there was never any physical evidence that they were sexually abused, as they claimed.
Here is a chronical of what happened before, during and after the murder.
http://judicial-inc.biz/Specter_Phil.htm
By Alex Veiga
ASSOCIATED PRESS 4:05 p.m. May 23, 2005
LOS ANGELES – A judge on Monday ruled prosecutors in the murder trial of Phil Spector can present evidence involving four incidents in which the famed music producer allegedly pulled guns on women.
The ruling came after Deputy District Attorney Doug Sortino argued that Spector used guns to threaten or intimidate people in "an ongoing course of conduct that happens again and again and again."
Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler acknowledged that allowing the evidence was "a dangerous path to go down." But he concluded the incidents seemed to illustrate the state's theory in the case.
Outside the courthouse, Spector insisted he "never pulled a gun on these women."
Fiddler refused to allow six other incidents to be introduced as evidence.
Spector is charged with murdering B-movie actress Lana Clarkson at his Alhambra mansion in early 2003. He has pleaded not guilty and is free on $1 million bail.
The producer is known for creating rock music's "wall of sound" recording technique in the 1960s that has influenced the Beatles, Bruce Springsteen and many others.
Each of the four incidents allowed by the judge occurred between 1988 and 1995 and involved women who claimed to have dated Spector and accused him of waving or pointing a gun at them.
In a 1991 incident, a woman identified in court documents as Melissa Grovesnor said she was visiting Spector and was forced to spend the night in a chair after she told him she wanted to return to her hotel room.
Spector pointed a gun at her head and began to yell and swear, prosecutors allege.
The three other incidents cleared by Fidler involved women identified in court filings as Stephanie Jennings, Dianne Ogden and Dorothy Melvin.
Defense attorney Bruce Cutler argued that none of the allegations were true and dismissed the women as celebrity-chasing "acolytes and gold diggers" out for publicity.
"They are not victims of any crime and we know that because they filed no criminal action," Cutler told the court.
He also warned that discussing the incidents during trial could prejudice the jury against Spector.
Among the incidents excluded by Fidler were two cases from the 1970s that led to charges against Spector.
In 1972, the producer pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor crime of carrying a loaded firearm in a public place and was given a year of probation. In 1975, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of brandishing a firearm and was given two years of probation.