Getting Comfortable

In the conference room of the DMZ dividing North and South Korea, there was a petty game of one-upsmanship with the little flags on the negotiating table. Each side would make its flag slightly larger, add a taller or broader base to the stand, etc., until the ornaments got absurdly large.

Phil Spector recently brought an expensive Aeron chair to the starkly furnished courtroom for himself. Soon after, prosecutors Patrick Dixon and Alan Jackson brought in their own pricey ergonomic seats. So far, Spector has not outfitted his lawyers with posh chairs, leaving them to sit through days in court in the county-issued hard-plastic scoops on wheels.

Perhaps the testimony against Spector so far is not the only thing giving defense lawyers a pain in the rear.

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stupid of the prosecutors -- LA prosecutors have been well known for many of their stupid moves and ignorant assumptions about juries since the OJ debacle showed just how stupid so many of them truly are -- they should have used the symbolism of Spector as rich, privileged, pampered -- too good for a regular chair -- but then they would have to pretend they're not pampered and indulged either..

this does not bode well for another possible OJ, Robert Blake type of circus show for which LA prosecutors are now so famous.

What a bunch of hacks.