actress Lana Clarkson's shooting death fit a pattern: Spector, when drunk, repeatedly has pulled guns on women who reject his advances. It is the central theme of their case against the music producer, who is accused of killing Clarkson, 40, in his Alhambra mansion Feb. Clarkson's shooting -- with the exception of the final scene, when the Lawyers for Spector, 67, countered that the women's stories fit a fortune at the expense of Spector, who worked with stars such as the Beatles and Ike and Tina Turner.
None of the other women who will testify against Spector were shot, they pointed out. did something in the past, it's very difficult to convince them they didn't do it again," said Shawn Chapman Holley, a lawyer who served on O.J.
Simpson's defense team. In the Spector case, Judge Larry Paul Fidler has allowed operation, not as character evidence. But judging from the courtroom appearance Friday of Dorothy Melvin, the first woman called to tell of threats by Spector, the defense Melvin, a former manager of comedian Joan Rivers, remained calm and focused as she described the producer pulling a gun on her, slapping her head and ordering her to disrobe, legal observers said.
any way," said Jean Rosenbluth, a University of Southern California 1993 incident. His apparent point: to show that the incident couldn't tougher grilling. Jennings, who claims that Spector pulled a gun on Hotel in New York, sold a photograph of herself with Spector to the National Enquirer, said Bruce Cutler, another of Spector's attorneys.
In his booming opening statement, Cutler made a preemptive strike on Jennings' character. He noted that the hotel staff "thought she was a prostitute. Of course she's not, but that's what they thought.
" their witnesses. A former prosecutor herself, Levenson said it is best to "package" witnesses, with the weaker ones sandwiched between two The challenge for the defense, Levenson said, will be to "neutralize the (women) without attacking too vigorously." Beating defense, she said.
journalist who once attended a bowling party thrown by Spector. The defense will do best, she said, by sticking to its primary theme: that they just have to plant a seed of doubt," Rosenbluth said. "They can sow the seeds of reasonable doubt with the science.
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