You might not be aware of it but the retrial of Phil Spector has been going on for a few months now. Spector was charged with murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson but his first trial ended in a deadlock with ten jurors voting to hang him and the other two somehow perceiving Reasonable Doubt. The Phil Spector Murder Trial (version 2.0) is now in its defense rebuttal stage and compared to the first go-round, it's received surprisingly little press coverage.
From what I've been able to glean, it's "Second verse, same as the first," with a few more ladies coming forth to testify that at some point, Spector pointed firearms at them. Oddly, part of the defense effort to knock down this image of Spector as guy who threatens women with guns is to establish that he also sometimes threatened men with guns, too. One of Spector's own lawyers is quoted as saying of this strategy, "The alternative is allowing the jury to believe Mr. Spector hates women and women only."
Good thinking there. If someone is always threatening women with guns and a woman gets shot by his gun, that might lead someone to think he shot her. But if he threatens everyone…well then, he's probably harmless. I can see that.
I've been unable to find any guesstimates of when a verdict might be in. This is annoying because as you may recall, I've decided that if this man is acquitted, I'm going to go on a killing spree. I'm Caucasian, I'm in show business and I even have bad hair. If Spector goes free, I'll go free. My big problem is that at the moment, there's really no one out there I want to kill. I wish they'd give me some idea of when this trial will be over so I'll know how long I have to plan out my killing spree. Also, I apparently have to make sure to threaten more people than I actually shoot.