Opinion—By BlogonautIt turns out Kelley Lynch is a Johnny-come-lately Phil Spector “supporter”, who may be more motivated by money than friendship. Or is she?
Although the Leonard Cohen nemesis claims that she is a “dear friend” of the music producer, doubts remain.
Phil Spector’s close friends (and even some fans) attended at least one of Spector’s trial sessions as a show of support. Kelley Lynch never showed up once for any of the pretrial proceedings or any of the trial days for the two nine month trials—even though the Spectors were urging fans and friends to drop by and show their support on their website. Nor has Lynch been to visit her “dear friend” in prison since his conviction on murder charges earlier this year.
About two or three months before the end of the second Spector murder trial Kelley Lynch launched her first blog that she entitled “Phil Spector and Kelley Lynch”, a site that assumed that Spector would be acquitted and then Phil Spector would use HIS money and HIS assembled legal team to JOIN Lynch in suing her imagined enemies, including the LAPD, and in suing Cohen. (The site has since been removed by Google.)
Kelley Lynch has tried to make a case that her legal woes and Phil Spector’s legal problems were intertwined.
Lynch’s angle is that Leonard Cohen “may” have perjured himself in Phil Spector’s “secret grand jury proceeding” (presumably about Spector pointing a gun at him at a recording session years before), and the reason Lynch was “kidnapped” from her home by LAPD and taken against her will to “Killer King” (apparently a psychiatric facility) was to discredit Lynch as a “witness” against Leonard Cohen in Cohen’s “tax prosecution” so as to preserve Cohen’s viability as a prosecution witness against Spector.
Of course, Leonard Cohen never testified against Phil Spector, and Phil Spector’s legal team never raised any claim that there was perjured testimony before the grand jury that indicted the music producer in the trial court—thus waiving that as a legal issue (if it ever was one).
It is Kelley Lynch’s theory of linkage that gives her (false) hope that with Phil Spector is freed he will join “forces” (Spector’s money, his lawyers, Lynch the loyal supporter who was almost “murdered” by LAPD to “protect” Phil Spector) with her and finally, with a well funded and top notch legal team, sue the bastards that Lynch claims have “destroyed my life" life.
But, of course, it is fantasy constructed on the thinnest of foundations, because there never was any “linkage” between Kelley Lynch’s legal troubles and those of the music producer—except that Lynch and Spector knew each other (it is not clear how well) years ago, and (she claims) dined together (in addition to how many others she has not said) after Clarkson’s death.
That is why Lynch gets so furious when we insist that Phil Spector’s appeal from his murder conviction with not be premised in any way shape or form on “Kelley Lynch”, “Leonard Cohen” or what did or did not occur before the grand jury (which would not be cognizable on appeal in any event).
The appeal will exclusively address legal issues arising during Phil Spector’s retrial, and will primarily focus on the so called Evidence Code Section 1101 evidence—the handful of women who the prosecution called to testify that Spector menaced them with firearms—as well as the prosecutions related misconduct (arguing from that evidence that Spector not only had a “propensity to kill” but that the shooting by Spector was inevitable)—as well as related instructional error by the trial court.
Ultimately, Kelley Lynch is just another down and out former acquaintance of a celebrity who seeks to trade on that former association by persuading Spector to ride to her rescue with hundreds of thousands of dollars of his money and his lawyers.
In other words, Lynch (at least in our view) has her hand out plain and simple.
That core motivation, in our opinion, is why she always tries to inject Phil Spector’s trial into any discussion about Cohen.
BTW, some of you may notice that we have not posted on this subject in some time, but with over 100 emails in our inbox (several within the hour) from Kelley Lynch disparaging this blog and demanding our attorney’s “disbarment”, “arrest” and “prosecution” for daring to disagree with Kelley Lynch’s far out views—all cc’d to the IRS, Treasury agent Sopko, the Department of Justice, the Governor of Colorado and many others—we decided it is once again time to join the internet discussion about Ms. Lynch raging on other sites.
We welcome your views in the comments.
