Well, the first ruling in the Phil Spector murder trial went in favour of the prosecution yesterday. The court was in session to consider attempts by Spector's defence team to have dismissed comments made by their client immediately after the shooting of actress Lana Clarkson at his LA home. As previously reported, shortly after the shooting Spector told police that he had shot the actress by accident. But later he changed his story and said Clarkson had shot herself.
Spector's legal team say that those original comments should not be considered in the legendary producer's murder trial, because police deprived him of a load of prescription drugs he was dependent on at the time and therefore he was in no position to speak about what had happened.
However, a judge in California yesterday ruled that the prosecution will be able to use those potentially damaging statements in their case against the producer, which presumably means after round one it's one-nil to the prosecution.