My Thoughts on the Phil Spector Brouhaha.

Let’s say you pick up a woman at the House of Blues, take her back to your mansion and she ends up shot through the teeth in your foyer. You run outside with the gun and blood on your hand and say to your Brazilian chauffer, “I think I just killed someone” and shrug as if you just accidentally broke a piece of china.

If you’re a normal person in a normal place, you’d probably be convicted of first or second degree murder. If you’re a rich, famous person in Los Angeles, you’ll probably get a mistrial because money buys reasonable doubt. That’s a lesson for all the kiddies out there. Want to do something really bad? Make sure you can buy your way out of it first! And don’t tell your mother I said that, here’s five bucks. Gedouttahere!

I haven’t watched every minute of the trial obsessively on CourtTV but honestly, I wanted to because I’m utterly baffled at how such a straight forward case went so off-course. I’ve read probably hundreds of news articles, blogs, and op/ed pieces about this case and trial over the last four point five years and I think the resounding sentiment is HUH!?

Here's a news article detailing the finer points of the case and rehashing the verdict from yesterday. Two jurors held out for innocent and caused a mistrial because they probably smoke crack, I'm assuming. I know he'll be tried again but I think it's just sad that we'll never know the truth. And regardless of any punishment Spector receives or doesn't receive, the truth will undoubtedly comfort people more.

LA is a baffling alternate universe sometimes.

Incidentally, have you ordered your copy of "If I Did It" yet?