Prosecutor talks

The live broadcast coverage of the Phillip Spector murder trial is unusual event in California. Just as unusual was prosecutor Alan Jackson’s interview aired over the weekend. Jackson was interviewed by CBS' 48 Hours on his last case: the successful prosecution of Michael Goodwin for the 1988 murders of famed race car driver and promoter Mickey Thompson and his wife. Goodwin was sentenced to life in prison, although he was not at the scene and always denied any role in the killings, which he reportedly hired two assassins on bicycle to carry out. By contrast, actress Lana Clarkson died at Spector's house. Jackson has suggested both killings sprang from the same thing: pride and ego. .