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Latest AP news on the Phil Spector trial, which has gripped my attention over the last few months.

US: Judge in Phil Spector’s murder trial says jurors believe they are at an impasse

Oh dear. More on the story after the jump…

Spector, 67, is charged with second-degree murder in the Feb. 3, 2003, gunshot death of actress Lana Clarkson, 40. The case went to the jury Sept. 10.

Clarkson was killed by a bullet fired from a gun inside her mouth. The defense contended that she shot herself either by accident or suicide.

(AP via IHT)

More AP details on what the jury have said:

The foreman of the jury in music producer Phil Spector’s murder trial told the judge Tuesday that the panel is at an impasse of 7 to 5, but he did not indicate which way it was leaning.

“At this time I don’t believe that anything else will change the positions of the jurors,” the foreman said when Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler asked if there was anything he could do to help.

This state of affairs is pretty strange: the jurors are going to speak to the lawyers and then be sent home. The defence team aren’t getting the mistrial statement that they were hoping for today.

To your left, you will see a variety of Spector wigs, as modelled in court. This has little to do with the charge or the deliberations of course, except for the fact that this would have been slightly less of a popular news story (even with the accident/suicide slant) without the pictures.

Leaving the lawyerly stuff to those in the know (“white-knuckled patience” necessary), it’s time to look at what these wigs really mean.

1. The fringe is a lovely, shortish feathered number, wonderfully complementing the tight ringlets. This is rather rock star-ish, saying “I might have my excesses, but I’m really all about the music.”
2. Pure Lost Member of the Jackson 5. Just screams innocence, and a singing voice that failed to break.
3. Schoolgate mum. Too busy with the kids for all this Lana Whatshername stuff.

Which leaves us with today’s offering:

It’s only one he’s not smiling in. He seems to be musing on the axiom, “Blondes have more fun.” His expression says, “Wish I hadn’t gone dark today.”

Chin up Speccy; it’s only the 7th day of deliberations - plenty of wig-time left.

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I like this and wish I’d thought of that title myself: Phil Spector’s Wall of Hair