Could we get a Phil Spector trial thread here on websleuths - please, please!
It is a most interesting case. And going to become even more so. Not just for the actual issue of murder vs. "accidental suicide", but for what is going on as side issues.
The hearing before the judge (no jury) to determine whether or not the defense - namely Dr. Lee - has withheld evidence found at the crime scene from the prosecution has been fascinating.
The testimony of Dr. Henry Lee in the side hearing (outside of the jury) was riveting. Several people, including a Shapiro defense team attorney, have testified that Lee found a piece of what appeared to be fingernail material at the crime scene after the police investigators had left the scene. An attoney for twenty-five year, Sara Caplan testified she watched Lee place the item into a vial! Lee denies he found anything of this nature or that he placed anything of this nature into a vial. He says he was using cotton swabs and placing them into vials and that's what she must have seen.
For those of us who followed the Michael Peterson trial and watched Lee's absurd "ketchup performance", his afffected inscrutable Cheshire-catlike smile, and his ever-increasingly non-understandable, grammatically incorrect replies to cross exam questions (whew!) it has been kind of gratifying to watch DA Alan Jackson very nicely and politely "tear him a new @sshole".
DA Jackson is obviously NOT taken in by Lee's "Charlie Chan" demeanor, nor by his attempts to "charm" his audience - the judge - with a smile and a racially-based "joke". (Referring to the numerous other people at the crime scene along with Lee during the time he was performing his own "crime scene investigation", when asked to name exactly who all was there Lee replied with a broad smile "I don't know. They all look alike to me!")
Bottom line: Lo and behold, in photos turned over to the prosecution just last week Lee took photos of "sumsing" that looks like it might be the fingernail-like piece - BUT he claims it is just a photo of a fresh gouge in the wood floor of Spector's foyer.
Is anyone else here following this trial closely?