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With record manufacturer Phil Spector's murder retrial approaching, prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to reconsider rulings from the first trial that excluded evidence of six multiplication Spector allegedly threatened people with handguns.
The alleged threats would be offered to show "common design or plan" by Spector, world Health Organization is charged with murdering actress Lana Clarkson after taking her home from a night club, prosecutors said.
The six incidents involved workforce and women, and some allegedly occurred in public. Two resulted in gun-related convictions against Spector for which he received probation in the 1970s.
"Spector has a long history of resorting to gun-related violence to exert his volition when he does non get his way," aforesaid the motion filed by prosecutors Alan Jackson and Truc Do.
Defense attorney Doron Weinberg declined to remark but aforesaid a response to the motion would be filed Tuesday.
During the first run, Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler allowed the testimony of five women who claimed Spector threatened them with guns in a way that power have been similar to his actions toward Clarkson, who died of a gunshot lesion at Spector's Alhambra planetary house in 2003.
In allowing the women's testimonial in 2005, Fidler aforementioned it was "a grievous path to go down" legally merely might illustrate the state's theory of motive.
Spector, 68, is illustrious for his "Wall of Sound" recording technique. A pretrial auditory sense is scheduled Thursday, with jury quizzical to begin Oct. 14. The first trial concluded in a jury deadlock.
The six encounters outlined by prosecutors span more than three decades.
In 1972 and 1975, Spector pleaded guilty to gun possession, brandishing and assault charges, and was placed on probation. One incident occurred at a now-defunct club on Rodeo Drive and some other outside the Beverly Hills Hotel.
A 1977 encounter tangled musician Leonard Cohen, wHO claimed Spector held a gun to his chest and aforesaid, "I love you, Leonard," to which Cohen replied, "I hope so, Phil."
Prosecutors said a 1978 incident involved a couple world Health Organization went to Spector's home to hash out music for a TV pilot and later said they were held for hours piece Spector played a piano, displayed a gun and allegedly pointed it at the man.
Another woman alleged that Spector flicked ashes on her dog in 1999, and that when she protested, held a gun to her buttock and made threatening remarks, according to the motion.
The last alleged incident came in November 2003, nine-spot months after the Clarkson killing, when Spector entered a coffee shop and was recognized by trey patrons world Health Organization asked him to connect them for coffee.
Spector allegedly made disparaging remarks about them and said, "I'm gonna go get my gun and blow you ... away," prosecutors said in the motion.
Prosecutors cited "the doctrine of chances" locution that after some 40 years of gun threats, it was unlikely that Spector would unwittingly wind instrument up in a elbow room with Clarkson when she decided to kill herself, as the defense claims.
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