Science takes center stage

Embracing science was the theme of Spector’s lawyers. 

Defense Linda Kenney Baden, whose husband, Michael Baden, is one of the expert witnesses for Spector, told jurors: “The government is not giving you all of the scientific facts, or the correct scientific facts, or even most of the scientific facts.”  She said experts would contradict prosecution witnesses who said the blood spatter patterns on the white coat he was wearing prove he was holding the gun.

Baden said her experts - several who testified for O.J. Simpson when he was aquitted of double murder -- will testify that when a gun is fired in a person’s mouth, blood can travel as far six feet away.  If jurors believe the scientific evidence shows Spector was that far away from Lana Clarkson, it could be powerful support for the defense claim that she killed herself. She described the facts in diametric opposition to the account of the prosecutor, Deputy Dist. Atty Alan Jackson: “Blood spatter shows that phil spector did not shoot that gun,”  Baden insisted.

-John Spano

Baden insisted that the absence of both gunshot residue on Spector’s clothes, and of any body tissue particles, proves his innocence. Both would have been blown onto any surface with three feet of the victim. Clarkson, by contrast, was covered with residue and tissue was found on the cuff of her shirt, suggesting she was holding the gun in her mouth when it fired, Baden said. Even particles from Clarkson’s teeth show they were blown outward, disproving the suggestion that Spector shoved the gun in her mouth, according to Baden.

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