Phil Spector Retrial: Day Eight of Testimony
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Prosecution Witnesses:
#10: Sonjia Holguin (waitress who served Spector at the House of Blues; testimony completed)
#11: Euphrathes Anthony Lalonvriz (Security trainer at the House of Blues; testimony completed)
#12 Melissa Grosvenor (1101(b) witness who was held at gunpoint in Spector’s Pasadena home)
Accredited Press inside the courtroom:
Harriet Ryan of the Los Angeles Times (about an hour in the afternoon session)
I miss the 8:29 am train this morning. Going down the escalator I realize I forgot to take a sweater again and I forgot to bring a bottle of water. When I get a seat on the train, there is a woman in the seat directly behind me. She has headphones on and she is singing, badly. This is going to be an interesting (and auditorialy painful) 1/2 hour ride. When the train starts up I’m fortunate. The sound drowns out the weak wailing of the American Idol wannabe.
In the first floor elevator bay, Pat Kelly from the PIO and I chat about where I can get any public case documents or motions. She tells me that normally they would be on the mezzanine level but since the case is in court the easiest would be to just ask the prosecutors for a copy of the document. It takes us about five tries before we are able to get on an elevator.
The courtroom is almost empty. There’s no accredited press and no attorneys with Mrs. Clarkson and Fawn. There are two gentlemen in the gallery on my left. Spector’s #1 fan is here. Weinberg’s male clerk is covering computer exhibits duty today. Spector is wearing a black pinstripe jacket, black pants a black shirt and a white kerchief. There are black shoes on his feet. Rachelle is wearing the black form fitted short satin jacket again with a midnight blue satin shirt. From here, her pants look like they have multicolored pin stripes, but I’m sure that’s not right. They are too long, too; the pant cuffs are dragging on the floor. Over that she is wearing one of her long, worn sweater coats.
Wendy and AJ and Truc chat. At 9:37 am the jury is called and the bailiff calls out for people in the gallery to turn off their cell phones and pagers. For a short time, the courtroom appears that it’s a bit warmer today. The DA’s clerks arrive. I notice two of the alternates take out wool looking shawls and wrap them around their shoulders when they sit down. Juror #5 is wearing another music related t-shirt. It’s black with an image and the words Johnny Cash. The rest of the men are wearing button down or polo shirts. A juror in the back row has a coughing fit, but she’s fine.
Sophia is up on the stand, under cross examination.
Ms. Holguin’s cross is not as painful as some of the 1101(b) witnesses. Many times however, she answer’s Weinberg’s questions with I don’t remember that, I don’t know or I don’t recall.
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November 19, 2008
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