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Updated Sept. 6, 2007, 2:40 p.m. ET
Prosecutor: 'Real Phil Spector' killed actress because she rejected him


Alan Jackson
During his closing argument Wednesday, prosecutor Alan Jackson painted Phil Spector as a misogynist who had been known to threaten women.
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LOS ANGELES — In his closing argument Wednesday, a prosecutor painted legendary music producer Phil Spector as a violent misogynist who shot actress Lana Clarkson because she rejected the Viagra-fueled sexual encounter he had planned.

"He had one thing on his mind, she had another," Deputy District Attorney Alan Jackson said of the February 2003 shooting at Spector's mansion.

The prosecutor said Spector was incensed that Clarkson, whom he had met at the Sunset Strip club where she worked, wanted to go home rather than spend the night with him.

Referencing testimony during the four-month trial that Spector referred to women by a profane term and said they "all deserve a bullet in their heads," the prosecutor told jurors, "That is Phil Spector's mindset. Women are all f-ing c-words."

Jurors could begin deliberating a second-degree murder count against Spector as soon as Friday. The nine men and three women are to hear summations from a defense attorney Thursday followed by a second prosecutor.

If convicted, the man who revolutionized pop music in the 1960s faces 15 years to life in prison. He insists Clarkson, 40, killed herself in his foyer.

In his four-hour argument, the prosecutor told jurors that Spector's behavior after the shooting was that of a callous killer, not of an innocent bystander to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He said Spector failed to call 911 despite more than a dozen phones in his 33-room home and wiped his victim's face with toilet water to try to stage a suicide. (VIDEO)

"It was disgusting. It was barbarous. That is how he chose to wash her face," Jackson said.

He contrasted Spector's reaction to that of his chauffeur. Adriano DeSouza testified that his boss emerged from the house immediately after the gunshot holding a gun in his bloody hand and stated, "I think I killed somebody."

DeSouza placed two panicked calls for help, one to Spector's assistant and the second to 911.

The prosecutor played a video montage of the testimony of five women who said Spector threatened them with weapons over the past three decades. He noted similarities to Clarkson's death and said that perhaps a more apt confession by Spector would have been, "I think I finally killed somebody."

Seated between two attorneys at the defense table, Spector, 67, seemed to pay close attention to the summation. He looked from the prosecutor to the projection screen where an audiovisual accompaniment played.

Jackson spent much of his summation attacking the evidence presented by Spector's team. He called it a "checkbook defense" and said of Spector's witnesses, both expert and lay, "It's nothing more than a pay to say. If you pay it, I will say it."

He said the claim defense attorney Linda Kenney-Baden made in her opening statement — that 10 points of "unimpeachable, unbiased" science would exonerate Spector — never materialized.

The prosecutor said expert scientific witnesses, including Kenney-Baden's husband, Dr. Michael Baden, were bent on helping the defense instead of offering objective scientific opinions.

"If you hire enough lawyers who hired enough experts who are paid enough money, you can get them to say just about anything," he said.


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