Spector judge rules victim's diaries 'insignificant'

Lawyers for record producer Phil Spector cannot immediately use what they claimed are diary-like writings of a suicidal vision taken from the computer of the woman Spector is accused of murdering, a clearly irritated judge ruled today.

The defence team wanted to use the material to cross-examine Dr Louis Pena, the coroner who concluded Lana Clarkson’s death on February 3 2003, at Spector’s mansion was murder.