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1984 All Over Again:The Collective Rules
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excellent .... i have a feeling it's gonna be a virtual film festival, so lay in some drinks, too.
Here's some notes I took of the first half of opening statements today ~~ also info missing due to commercial breaks on Court TV.
This is just rough, not verbatim, just notes.
Please forgive spelling errors and missing info..
D = defendant PS, Phil Spector.
Opening statement prosecution 4-25-2007
Alan Jackson, Deputy District attorney.
PS (Phil Spector) has history of violence against women w/guns. He has a history of pulling guns on a long line of women. Today, you'll hear about:
Stephanie Jennings
Dorothy Melvin
Melissa Grosner
Diane halder
The D has a pattern back to the 1980s. Strikingly similar.
Diane Ogden-halder .... a talent coordinator for the Grammy awards since 1978.
1982 met D. Immediately, he began asking her out on dates.
About six months into dating .... Hollywood house ... D had been drinking to excess. She decided she wanted to leave. D locked the door, said you cannot leave, almost joking. Could not leave for 45 minutes.
Then, in 1987 D hired her as personal assistant.
1988 casual dating relationship. Helping D w/dinner party. Drinking.
2:00 a.m. she said I'm ready to leave. D snapped. This was at the Pasadena home. He disappeared, came back, produced a pistol, was standing in the foyer. He ordered her to sit down. He pressed the barrel of the gun into her cheek, forehead, neck. She was crying. She was afraid he would kill her. He orders her to go upstairs, lie down on the bed next to him. She followed his orders. The gun was in arm's reach. They fell asleep. When they awoke, he acted as though nothing had happened.
You'll see this pattern emerging.
D had been drinking.
D had romantic interest.
D brought her back to the house.
They were alone.
When she tried to leave, he produced gun, pressed it against her face, aimed at head . . .
~~ commercial ~~
Dorothy Melvin 1989, began asking her out, maintained casual dating relationship. She had never been to his home. In 1993, July, seeing friend and family, she was invited to his home. It was a lovely evening. D drank almost an entire fifth of alcohol. Began to get unsteady on feet. She fell asleep on the couch. Woke up the next morning, looked around, did not see anyone. Walked out the back door, door the motor court. Sees D wearing shoulder holster, pointing pistol at her car. She asked, he turned around and back handed her with gun hand, asking where she was. He yelled get the F**** back in the house. She went. She begs to leave. He will not let her. Finally says you can leave but "the purse stays here." He keeps purse, throws keys at her. She takes keys, drives car to where gates are closed. D runs up with a shotgun, tells her to "get out." When she points out the gate is closed, he opens it and lets her out.
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Stephanie Jennings 1995. Goes back to suite. 3:00 a.m. knock on door. Body guard says D wants you. Few minutes later, D knocks on door, invites her to his room. She says she wants to go home.. He comes back to her room with a gun, sits in chair in front of door and holds her at gunpoint. She calls 911. Mobile digital terminal documents will be presented. "female threatened, assault, weapon involved, celebrity involved, Phil Spector.
~~~~~commercial
??Date with Kathy Sullivan.
Adriano DeSouza the driver. Sullivan is without a car.
Dan Tana's is where they went, D asked for "navy grog," settled for a daqari, ordered a salad. Second round of drinks ordered. D said let's go to house of blues.
Sullivan didn't want to, but she thought it might be closed. It was till open. They went to the Foundation room, the VIP section. That's where D met lana Clarkson. (me: And that's the night she died.) He ordered bacardi 151 straight up, @ twice as strong alcohol as usual drinks, 150 proof alcohol.
That was somewhere on the order of 10 separate drinks throughout the night, starting at Trader Vic's with "navy grog."
Lana Clarkson was the door person at the "foundation room".
First of all, LanaC thought D was a woman. She said "you're not on the list. He asked, "Do you know who I am?" She was told to treat him like one of the owners, Dan Akroyd. Treat him like gold. She immediately began to fawn over him. D began to flirt with her. He asks her to have a drink. She cannot because she is working. He says okay, maybe later.
<my question: where was Sullivan after this? i didnt get that.>
After closing, D wants LanaC to come to "the castle." She keeps saying no, she's tired and has to work the next day. He keeps insisting. She refuses to leave her car there, a black cougar, because she says it will get locked up and she wont have access to it until the next day. He tells the driver, Adriano, to go get lana's car and park it on the street, then he'll have her driven back to her car after "one drink" and a tour around "the castle." She said to Adriano, "it's okay. I'm just gonna stay for one drink. D immediately barks: Don't talk to the driver.
~~~~ lunch break ~~~
right now it's catherine crier and she is showing some more of the opening statement, plus, currently interviewing dr. henry lee.
.... looking back over it, i see several things i missed the first time through. (see subsequent "addendum." i do have a lot of fun with smilies. I mostly use the ones from smileycentral.com
