Witness stands fast

Spector attorney Linda Kenney Baden is conducting her final cross-examination of sheriff's criminalist Lynne Herold. It is a good example of an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object. Kenney Baden continues to cite studies supporting the defense's position that blood can spatter more than six feet. If that is true, the bloodstains on Spector's jacket could show he was standing too far from Lana Clarkson to have fired the murder weapon, which went off inside the actress' mouth.

Herold says she has read the studies Kenney Baden cites but insists a controlled experiment is not the same as a messy crime scene. Over and over, Kenney Baden will pointedly ask if Herold has read a study, and Herold will reply with something like: "I wouldn't equate the two circumstances. One's a laboratory study, one is a case."

Many of the jurors are paying close attention and taking notes.