Spector’s Retrial for Murder - Defense Rests After Damning Admission
The defense in Phil Spector’s murder retrial rested its case Thursday with the testimony of a memory expert summoned to undermine a key prosecution witness.
UC Irvine professor Elizabeth Loftus summarized research suggesting that certain circumstances — including stress, fear and exhaustion — can lead witnesses to misremember events. Loftus spoke generally about the limits of human memory, but questions by a defense attorney referenced the circumstances in which Spector’s former driver, Adriano de Souza, says he heard the music producer admit to shooting actress Lana Clarkson in his home. Read the rest of the article