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The Battle of the Discovery Violations Accusations

Prosecution Witnesses Presented Today:
#2 Dorothy Melvin (now under cross by the defense; unfinished)

This is a short entry to give you and idea of what happened today. I have some sewing orders that I have to get out, and once I get that done I’ll be writing up some detailed notes covering yesterday and today, so please keep checking back for that much later tonight.

Not much got accomplished today. You could sum up the day as the battle of the discovery violations accusations. Both sides are claiming foul.

Apparently, Mr. Weinberg got a report from his investigator into Tannazzo’s background. Since Weinberg didn’t have any “official” or “certified” documents, he kept saying he didn’t have any discovery material to hand over. In a complaint to the court outside the presence of the jury Ms. Do said, “He lied to us and he lied to the court about what he had [...] and he sandbagged us and he sandbagged the witness…”

Ms. Do told the court she had to tell Mr. Weinberg that she saw the documents he had at the podium, and once she did that, she told the court he handed them over.

Weinberg responds: “Lets be real. I’ve have received zero discovery from the prosecution about the last trial.” He continues to complain that the prosecution did not give him any discovery regarding new analysis that Dr. Lynn Herold has performed.

(I heard AJ tell Mr. Weinberg about this informally before the start of opening statements on Wednesday. Mr. Weinberg only asked one question of AJ: “Is her testimony going to change?” AJ replied, “No.” Now he brings this up in defense of his own actions?)

Back and forth, back and forth it goes. Weinberg continues to complain that the prosecution has held stuff back.

To read the ongoing coverage of Sprocket on the Phil Spector retrial, take 2 visit Sprocket’s site.

http://sprocket-trials.blogspot.com/2008/11/phil-spector-retrial-day-two-of.html.

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