PHIL SPECTOR - RE-TRIAL JURY TOUR SPECTOR'S MANSION

RE-TRIAL JURY TOUR SPECTOR'S MANSION

The second jury in the ongoing PHIL SPECTOR murder retrial toured his Los Angeles home on Thursday (19Feb09) where actress LANA CLARKSON was killed six years ago.
The legendary music producer is being retried on charges of murdering 40-year-old Clarkson at his Alhambra, California mansion in February 2003.
In the final phases of the re-trail, 12 jurors, as well as six alternates, were taken to Spector's mansion to investigate the scene of Clarkson's death.
Central to the case is the estate's outside water fountain, since Spector's legal team claim the producer's chauffeur may have been mistaken in his testimony that he overheard the music mogul say, "I think I killed somebody," due to noise of the burbling water.
On the first jury's visit, the prosecution accused Spector of attempting to increase the fountain's volume in a bid to suggest his chauffeur could not have overheard an alleged murder confession.
However, the judge overseeing the case allowed a second visit, as it was discovered there was no way of changing the volume or speed of the water feature.
Unlike the first set of jurors, the new jury were shown the bloodstained chair where Clarkson was found dead.
A replica of the limousine the chauffeur had used was also positioned in the driveway, but the judge did not allow jurors to sit inside it as it was not the original vehicle.
Spector and his lawyers were present throughout the hour-long tour.
The original trial ended in 2007 with a deadlocked jury. Spector is charged with second-degree murder in relation to Clarkson's death.