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Phil Spector - Unambiguous on everything except the request for counsel?

Another study says ugly looking people get found guilty more often than good looking people. Phil Spector's got a haircut and a venire of 300 for his murder trial. The Smoking Gun has a partial transcript of an interview with a police officer. TSG's transcript starts at page 18, where the cop is (apperently) verifying with Spector that "you wanna get ahold of your [attorney, Robert Shapiro]" Unfortunately, Phil Spector had some serious diarrhea of the mouth (and serious potty mouth, too) to include trashing the dead woman in the case.I'd like to see the first 18 pages, and hope for Spector's sake that he unequivocally invoked his right to counsel. His vehemence for the dead "piece of shit" and the authorities certainly is unambiguous.If the suspect's statement is not an unambiguous or unequivocal request for counsel, the officers have no obligation to stop questioning him...continue to full post

Full post as published by Gideon’s Guardians on March 23, 2007 (boomark / email).