Howdy All,
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AND...on CTV today... I was half asleep as I watched, but is there some mention of PS having said, "all women deserve a bullet in their head" or some such to someone, was it the police or someone else? Did anyone hear that today? The prosecution has evidently tried to get something in on this previously, and is trying again? What is this? Anyone know more about this?
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Hey there Wrinkles! This will help explain, the obnoxious words
were allegedly made by none other than the defendant!
Controversial statements
Remember a time before crime death-scene evidence? A time before paper bindles and alleles and mist-like misting blood, when individuals got on the stand and talked about what people said and did?
Well, youll have to cast your memory back to those golden days to understand a motion filed today by the prosecution. The government is making a second run at getting the testimony of one Vincent Tannazzo before the jury.
Vince doesnt know DNA, bullet wipe or intra-oral wounds, but he claims another significant credential: knowledge of Phil Spector, drunk and mouthing off about hurting women with guns.
Tannazzo, a retired NYPD officer, says that in the mid-1990s, he was working security at Joan Rivers annual Christmas party when Spector made a very profane and very disturbing statement about women.
In part, he allegedly said, They all deserve to die. They all deserve a bullet in their f------ head ... thats why I got permits for all over. Wherever I go, I always keep a gun, because these f------ c----, theyre all no f------ good.
Judge Fidler ruled it was inadmissible back in April, largely because of what he described as that word. You know the one. Its so offensive, Fidler said, wed have to question jurors about their reaction to it in voir dire. However, the judge warned back then,
if the defense opens the door to it, it may come in.
The prosecution thinks the defense nudged the door open in their cross-examinations of Spectors exes and pseudo-exes by repeatedly painting the defendant as a gentleman who treated women with respect. Questioning Kathy Sullivan, for example, a defense attorney called Spector a constant gentleman and very much a gentleman, who was very fatherlyand very mannerly towards her. Notably, Sullivan heartily agreed with these assessments.
Lawyers asked similar questions and got similar answers from Rommie Davis, his high school chum, and Diane Ogden, his former employee.
The defendants statements to Vincent Tannazzo show that the defendant was not always kind and gentlemanly in his attitude towards women. They show that he carried guns not to protect women, but instead to threaten them, Jackson wrote.
As far as that word, the prosecutor says, the jury already heard it when Stephanie Jennings (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after-party goes south) played the threatening voice-mails Spector left.
Judge Fidler has scheduled arguments for Tuesday afternoon. -- Harriet Ryan
http://blog.courttv.com/phil_spector/2007/06/controversial-s.html#comments
So another door might have been opened by our Dream Team!
LOL JF hearing arguments on Tuesday!
I'm not sure, but would this be the 3rd door?
(Anyone having trouble getting in here? Night before last was a no go, then last night after trying and trying, I finally made it, but then I was not able to post!) f r u s t r a t i n g
ps--I couldn't believe Anita was back today! LOL Jamie's new best friend!
Sounds interesting! Oh well... Thanks blondekj! 