In fact — if that phrase can even be used about Phil Spector — the movie does argue for reasonable doubt about the guilt of the accused. It gives much weight to ballistics tests indicating that if Spector had been close enough to Clarkson to put a gun in her mouth and pull the trigger, his white coat would have been fully drenched, not slightly spattered, in her blood. The film also suggests that Spector might have been acquitted if he’d taken the stand in his own defense, but that he wore a preposterous blond Afro wig to court that morning (as “a homage to Jimi Hendrix,” Pacino’s Spector says) and Linda deemed it unwise to have him testify. Essentially, according to Mamet, the outcome of the trial hinged on a bad hair day.
Spector’s unforgivable crime, in Mamet’s eyes, is that he was famous — notorious — in Los Angeles, whose legal system had been humiliated by the botched prosecutions of Michael Jackson, O.J. Simpson and Robert Blake
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