Nail redux
A defense investigator who once worked for Phil Spector testified Thursday that he thought famed criminalist Henry Lee had found a fingernail at the scene of actress Lana Clarkson's shooting death. "I think it's a fingernail," Stanley White said he told Lee, after the criminalist plucked a small white object off the floor in Spector's castle-like mansion. "You're crazy," Lee replied, according to White. "You need glasses," White said he responded, walking away. The testimony revived prosecution claims that Spector's team may have hidden crucial evidence recovered after Clarkson's Feb. 3, 2003, shooting. Dep. Dist. Atty. Alan Jackson is expected to seek severe sanctions if Judge Larry Fidler, who is conducting the hearing outside the presence of the jury, finds evidence was concealed.
Prosecutors in 2004 sparked an inquiry into the missing broken fingernail, which they said could have suggested Clarkson died in a struggle. But defense lawyers, who say Clarkson shot herself, denied any knowledge of the nail. White, a retired sheriff's deputy then working for defense lawyer Robert Shapiro, said his exchange with Lee took place the day after the shooting during an examination of the foyer where Clarkson died. Corroborating White's account, attorney Sara Caplan, who also took part in the examination, testified earlier she saw Lee take a small white object from the ground. “He picked it up and put it in a vial, it was a little white thing,” she said on the witness stand.
I live in Florida and wonder if there is any LIVE trial coverage on the Internet. Courtv is live...sometimes.
Posted by: Robert | May 03, 2007 at 03:58 PM
Latimes.com will resume live video Monday May 7, continuing throughout the trial. Go to: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/spector/
Posted by: Moderator | May 03, 2007 at 04:05 PM
www.ktla.com has live coverage of the Spector trial-- along with a few other news websites, (don't know them off hand).
You can click the link @ the top of the screen that says "phil spector murder trial" ... if it is not up, the trial has ended or not started yet...
gl
Posted by: antispector | June 13, 2007 at 12:35 PM