found her body slumped in a chair in the foyer of Spector 's 8,500-square-foot Pyrenees-style castle , a Colt Cobra Special .38 - caliber revolver at her feet . The question the jury must answer is straightforward : Did Spector , 67 , shoot Clarkson , 40 , in the face after she spurned his romantic advances and tried to leave his home ? Or did she shoot herself , either by accident or in suicidal despair over her flagging Hollywood career ? The jurors did n't hear directly from Spector . The most damaging testimony came from his Brazilian-born driver , who said the boss wandered out of the castle that morning and announced , `` I think I killed somebody . '' His dress and mannerisms at the defense table were impossible to ignore . `` Sometimes the most important thing about a defendant 's court appearance is the defendant 's appearance , '' Court TV anchor Lisa Bloom said . `` Looks count when it comes to a criminal trial , '' agreed Laurie Levenson , a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles . `` They can work for a defendant , and they can
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- `` Jurymen seldom convict a person they like , or acquit one that they dislike . '' -- Clarence Darrow A moussed , tousled brown hairstyle is murder trial defendant Phil Spector 's latest look . Since April , the murder trial of music producer Phil Spector has been playing out in Los Angeles , California , oddly contrasting gruesome CSI details with the defendant 's daily fashion emergency . Jurors finally will go behind closed doors for deliberations at the end of the week . Their impressions of Spector 's over-the-top fashion statements and nebbish-like demeanor could weigh as heavily , legal analysts say , as any of the conflicting expert testimony about ballistics , blood spatter and other forensic evidence . Spector , a diminutive aging hipster who invented the `` Wall of Sound '' and worked with the Beatles and Ike and Tina Turner , is accused of second-degree murder . He allegedly shot Lana Clarkson , a B-movie actress-turned-House of Blues hostess whose film credits include `` Barbarian Queen '' and `` Amazon Women on the Moon . '' As the sun began to rise on February 3 , 2003 , police