District Attorney Alan Jackson delivered an impassioned closing statement in Phil Spector's murder trial, claiming the famed producer "literally had the smoking gun in his hand".
Jackson lashed out at what he described as a "chequebook defence", telling the jury, "If you hire enough experts, you can get them to say anything you want. You could get them to come into court wearing a tutu if you pay them enough."He went on to say that Lana Clarkson had been murdered twice. "She was murdered once on February 3, 2003, by Phillip Spector when he put a gun in her mouth and that gun went off," Jackson said. "Her character has been assassinated over the last four months through the presentation of the defence evidence, attempting to paint her in a way that simply isn't true."
The prosecution alleges that Spector put the gun in the mouth of actress Clarkson after she allegedly tried to leave his castle-like home in Los Angeles. Spector's lawyers maintain that she committed suicide.
Jackson reminded the jury of security camera footage showing Spector and Clarkson outside the House Of Blues club where the pair met on the evening Clarkson died.
"If you could say one thing to Lana Clarkson at that moment, as she waits in that car park, what would you say?" Jackson asked the jury.
"Five months ago you wouldn't have known what to say. But now you know who the real Phil Spector is, what he is, and what he does, you know what you'd say. You'd lean over to Lana and whisper 'Don't go!'
"And the reason you would do this is because you know something that Lana Clarkson didn't: you know who the real Phil Spector is. And you know in your heart of hearts that he is responsible for her death. He killed her."
