Phil Spector jury retires for the weekend

Jurors in Phil Spector’s murder trial went home early for the Good Friday holiday without reaching a verdict.

The six-man, six-woman panel is to resume work Monday. They have deliberated about 30 hours over eight days.

Spector, 69, is charged with murder in the 2003 fatal shooting of actress Lana Clarkson. His defense contends her death was a suicide.

--Harriet Ryan

Comments

[Reed]

Guilty as sin.

[michele]

Guilty, clear as day, but, the rest of the country is mystified by yet another LA jury who have scrambled eggs for brains. What does it take for a celebrity to be convicted of heinous crimes in LA?

[Cody]

no one will every believe that spector pick up L Clarkson that night with the idea he was going to murder her, or any other night.

[gregory perez]

Yes but what will the verdict be?

[Friends of Lana Clarkson]

To the Jury and the Judge in the Phil Spector Murder Trial- A Special Message

Apologies for Lana Clarkson's Mother's Lawyers Who Threaten Friends of Lana For Wanting to Talk Nice About her For the Murder Trial

Los Angeles - We know that you are not sequestered and can listen to the radio, read newspapers, receive e-mails and text messages outside the courtroom. We know that despite your testimony that you are not doing any of this for -ah 1/2 year now?????---You are indeed checking out the news on this trial. Judge Fidler, you know this and even tried to stop it short of sequestering.

So Jury, we hope with all our heart that you will have someone forward this advisory to you ...even if only a few of you get this..we hope it will give you a clear message from some of the good friends of Lana Clarkson on what is going on.

As friends of Lana Clarkson, some who knew her better than her own family, we would like to explain to you why none of us (real friends) have not testified or talked to the media.-Also we want to explain to you why the mother and sister of Lana Clarkson have not spoken to the media, her friends, and the public in any way about their beautiful daughter and sister Lana Clarkson. We don't want you to see this puzzling behavior as a negative towards Lana's life, personality and family life. Sadly we think this behavior helped two jury members last year choose not to find Spector guilty. We have heard that some of you jury members wondered out loud why, "...even her own mother and daughter didn't come to her defense"....Don't get this wrong. Lana loved her family, and her family loved her, yet she had her own life and was independent. Mother and daughter are under the Zingalli-like brainwashing influence of their two troubling civil lawyers. It hurts us when the Clarkson family's two puzzling lawyers, hired only to file and litigate the future wrongful death civil trial, actually put a gag on her family and friends for this murder trial. Although they have no legal power to do this, Roderick Lindblom and John Taylor (who never met Lana), have threatened some of her friends and demanded that we do not speak with the media and justified their demand with this statement, "...something you say may come back to screw up our civil wrongful death case".

We want you jury members to know that there is a group of concerned friends and co-workers who loved Lana and her spiritual lovely way. The chosen witnesses for both the prosecution and defense have excluded family and friends. You have only seen Lana's mother speak once in court and it was tainted testimony caused by both the influence of the defense and the prosecution. There should be no threats or anything coming from Mr. Taylor and Mr Lindblom! They have attempted to even follow through on threats to Edward Lozzi, Lana's friend and one time publicist, who even worked for Lana's memory and consulted for these two lawyers pro-bono before he was threatened and slandered by them. Mr. Lozzi would not continue to remain quiet about Lana and her admirable career and history. He helped turn the ignorant and negative media comments around by the media about Lana for the past six years including influencing Dominick Dunne from Vanity Fair, who even become a crusader for Lana. Lana's family and their two lawyers despise Dunne and have said so publicily. Lozzi helped place the mother and daughter on ABC News, the only TV interview they ever did in 2005. Their two lawyers wanted them to announce- guess what? -The wrongful death civil suit! Lozzi was defamed in writing and to the media last year by Mr. Taylor and Mr. Lindblom. You know these two by site. They sit in the courtroom every day next to the mother and daughter. They are useless. They should be ashamed for what they have done. I know you have heard so much mumbo-jumbo from Doron Weinberg as well as false testimony from his paid witnesses....but wouldn't it have been nice for her friends to have testified or to have appeared in the media. Are you still wondering why this has not happened? Many fear reprisals from these two unethical lawyers. Many of Lana's friends were threatened by these lawyers and most have disappeared out of fear. Some did not and were falsely attacked by the lawyers. We are not like Punkin Pie or disgruntled producers who testified at the trial and were compromised by money and fame to turn around their stories. We are friends who have experienced the talent, motivation, help, and good will of Lana Clarkson and so desperately want you to know that. They say testimony from friends and family is prejudicial. However we know her and the personality that could not commit suicide-and even talked a friend out of suicide. Suicide! Get real jury.

We don't care about the wrongful death civil suit. WE want this gun crazy psychopath Phil Spector taken out of society. A vast number of important people( over 50 to 100) came forward to sign affidavits that Phil Spector pulled loaded guns on them over a 40 year period. Only 5 women were allowed to testify. You heard Spector's death threats on tape, you saw his gun collection, you saw blood on his jacket, you heard the testimony of his own driver that Spector killed......that it was an accident!!!!! Lana did not own a gun. Lana was preparing for her new comedy tour. Lana bought 8 pairs of shoes for work the same day. Lana had her shoulder bag on waiting for the limo driver to pick her up at the back door when she was murdered. Come on jury- Wake up! What is it going to take? Don't dumb down now. Don't be abused by the foreman or other jurors like what happened with the first jury. Don't let Spector go. Many of those abused by him and involved in this trial fear his threatened reprisals. Abusers like him are incurable. He will do it again and it will be on your conscience. The two civil lawyers have no conscience.

[Kelley Lynch]

An Open Letter From Phil Spector To A Good Friend.

Sunday July 26th

Steven,

I had no voice the day I was sentenced in court on May 30th 2009 due to throat papalomas I had removed 3-days earlier on the 27th.of May. It left me with no voice. I was indeed very upset because when I was asked to address the court, I could not speak for I had no voice. What I wanted to say follows: Be it known that I, Phillip Spector had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the death of Lana Clarkson. And irrefutable science and five of the greatest, most famous forensic scientists all swore under oath that Ms. Clarkson died of a self inflicted gun shot wound, a suicide. They swore by irrefutable science. And while juries and judges lie and make mistakes, science and DNA do not. When their scientific findings and words were ignored is a mystery to me, and hopefully will not be ignored by the appellate court. And I shall return.

But let it also be known that there IS a murderer in the court room and it is NOT Phil Spector, it is Alan Jackson. During the trial he murdered the truth, ,he murdered the constitution, he murdered the law, and he murdered my reputation, and he should not go unpunished for his dastardly deeds. He used his five little “groupies” women, one of whom recently overdosed and died from drugs, and could not be here to testify to slander and lie about me, and victimize me so that he could get his conviction without any scientific proof whatsoever. That’s because he had none. He lied and cheated and double crossed that before along with his cohort Truc Doe whenever they got to it, yes my friends, HE is the real murderer. But, what goes around comes around. And the appellate court will see through his chicanery and smoke and mirrors, and false law and overturn my conviction, and then I will be back stronger than ever, a free man as I should be. Until then, POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

Steven, I would like this published verbatim from the beginning of this letter to the end. And tell Chris Paven to also put it on my website.

Thanks, Phillip