Long Term Readers Will Remember....

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... that I predicted exactly this result about six months ago.

Nice to know that this former Gannett Courthouse Reporter still knows how to fucking read a jury.

CNN Breaking News -- The jury in the Phil Spector murder trial is hung, judge says. UPDATE: Wow is the judge out of his mind if he thinks that forcing the jury to come back and consider

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[boopbedoop]

I'm sorry.. it's totally beside the point here, but the hairstylist in me just cannot see anything beyond that NEST on his freakin' HEAD! I'm getting my lawnmower...

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LOLOLOL

[sui_generis]

Spector clearly hypnotized and confused the jury with his constantly changing, insanity-plea-supporting hairstyles.

[boopbedoop]

rofl!

[d_willrobinson]

Hang the jury? Why, they didn't do it?

(I wonder how much acid it takes for your hair to do that. I can only aspire.)

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I can't believe they spent millions of dollars prosecuting this case to begin with.

From the start it was clear that they would be able to prove Phil was a lunatic gun nut - but not that he pulled the trigger.

Almost any cop will tell you that if two drunk, coked up people are alone in a room with a gun and one of them gets shot it's almost impossible to prove that the other person did it - unless gunshot residue is found on their hands, which in this case it wasn't.

So, lacking that, it's a he said/she said situation with her being too dead to say anything.

It's almost a textbook example of reasonable doubt.

It's really irresponsible to prosecute a murder charge on that basis.

Instead they should have charged him with reckless endangerment - which he was certainly guilty of - but they didn't want to do that and have it look like they were soft on crime.