Los Angeles (E! Online) - Could it have been a romantic evening gone wrong?

A Los Angeles homicide detective testified Wednesday that from the bottles of booze to the candles to the lipstick tube inside Lana Clarkson's bra to the partially empty Viagra packet, the actress' death Feb. 3, 2003, in the hallway of Phil Spector's Alhambra home appeared to have “sexual overtones to it.”

In his second day on the witness stand, L.A. County Sheriff's Detective Mark Lillienfeld said that he based his opinion on the condition of the house when arrived at the scene—the mansion was dark, candles were lit, a bottle of tequila and a snifter of brandy were on the living room coffee table and there were two false eyelashes next to an almost-drained brandy snifter in the bathroom off the foyer.

A foil packet with one Viagra pill and two empty spots were found in a briefcase with Spector's initials on it lying a few feet away from Clarkson's body, Lillienfeld had testified yesterday.

“All those facts in my mind played into a sexually motivated murder, and the Viagra was a piece of evidence that would perhaps prove later on to be important,” he said Wednesday.

Defense attorney Bradley Brunon, who during cross-examination Tuesday suggested that the death scene may have been contaminated, asked Lillienfeld whether he was aware that a rape kit performed on Clarkson had come back negative.

The detective said that he did not know that.

“Do you have any evidence whatsoever that Mr. Spector took Viagra that night?” Brunon asked.

“I do not,” Lillienfeld said.

Did Clarkson's clothing appear ripped or otherwise suggestive of someone grabbing or pawing at her? Brunon asked.

Lillienfeld answered no.

Resuming his faulty crime scene line of , Brunon showed the jury photographs of investigators, not wearing gloves, touching the .38-caliber revolver that was produced in court Tuesday.

“You have to agree with me there was a lot of touching of the gun, do you?” Brunon inquired.

“I do not,” answered Lillienfeld.

Under redirect by Deputy District Attorney Patrick Dixon, Lillienfeld said that he believed the presence of Clarkson's DNA on the tips of the gun's bullets was caused by blowback that occurred after the weapon was fired.

Spector's camp is arguing that Clarkson was the victim of an “accidental suicide,” while the maintains she was killed by an Spector,part of a longtime habit the music producer had of drunkenly threatening women with firearms.

Before concluding his testimony, the detective also said that as he was wrapping up his investigation of the death scene on the evening of Feb. 4, 2003, he saw members of Spector's former defense team, which at the time was headed by famed criminal attorney Robert Shapiro. Forensics expert Henry Lee was among the group at the scene, Lillienfeld said.

Meanwhile, one of the members of that former team, attorney Sara Caplan, could be slapped with a contempt charge after refusing to testify Wednesday in front of the jury about what she observed during their search of Spector's home.

Caplan testified May 3 during an evidentiary hearing that she saw Lee pick up a flat white object with uneven edges at the scene. The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office is maintaining that Lee picked up a piece of Clarkson's acrylic fingernail and then failed to turn it over to the prosecution.

L.A. Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler has ruled that Lee did find something and keep it from the prosecution. The jurist couldn't say for sure whether it was a bit of nail, though.

Lee, in the meantime, has adamantly maintained his innocence, saying he picked up only threads and fibers at the scene and will take whatever legal route is necessary to preserve his reputation.

Caplan, who worked for Shapiro and is no longer on Spector's defense team, said today that it would violate her attorney-client privilege to testify. Spector's attorneys agreed, with Roger Rosen saying Spector would invoke the privilege himself.

“My sense of justice is not only to Mr. Spector…but also to Miss Clarkson and to justice herself,” Fidler said, disallowing that argument. “Caplan went to a scene and said she saw someone manipulate, conceal or destroy evidence. There is no privilege not to testify.”

Telling the court he'd reexamine the issue on Monday, Fidler, calling her “an unimpeachable witness from the prosecution's standpoint,” threatened to either fine or jail Caplan until she testifies or until the trial is over.

“In 25 years on the bench, I've never held an attorney in contempt,” Fidler said. “I take this extremely seriously and I think she's making a terrible mistake.”

Michael Nasatir, Caplan's attorney, pleaded with the judge to not make a defense attorney testify against her client.

“An attorney is no different than any other person in following the law,” Fidler said.

Court was dismissed until Monday to allow Assistant D.A. Patrick Dixon time to fly to the East Coast for his daughter's graduation from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysian claim they have created a nutty to Viagra based on walnuts in a pill more healthy than its pharmaceutical counterpart, according to a report Sunday.

Kim Kah Hwi, who headed the team of researchers from the the University of Malaya, said he was inspired to look into walnuts after reading about their use in history, the Star daily reported.

“I read articles about the Romans and French having eaten walnuts for this purpose. I thought if it had been documented that long ago, then there surely has to be something there,” he told the newspaper.

It took Kim and his research team two years to develop “N-Hanz”, tablets which contain walnut extract and have shown positive results on 40 volunteers against erectile .

“It takes about an hour for the effects to set in and it will last for about four hours,” said Kim.

“Furthermore, because it is not a drug, it is safe for those with hypertension or diabetes, or (those) who have recently had heart bypasses,” he said.

Some of the volunteers had undergone bypass surgery, Kim added.

Kim said the active ingredient was an amino acid called arginine, which is absorbed into the body and converted into nitric oxide, according to the newspaper.

“This enlarges blood vessels and enhances blood flow to the penis,” he said.

The newspaper said “N-Hanz” had won a gold medal for best invention at a recent technology and invention exhibition in Malaysia, while Kim said it had been approved by Malaysia's health ministry.

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LOS ANGELES (C
ourt TV) - Lawyers at Phil Spector's murder trial battled
Wednesday over the of Viagra at the scene of an actress's
death.

Investigators found a three-pack of Viagra tucked in a
leather valise on a chair a few feet from the body of Lana Clarkson Feb.
3, 2003. Two of the pills were gone. A chauffeur has testified that
Spector retrieved the briefcase from his Mercedes shortly after he and
Clarkson arrived at his home.

Cross-examining the homicide
detective who collected the pill as evidence, an attorney for Spector
suggested the music producer never took the medication.

Lawyer
Bradley Brunon noted that the valise, which was monogrammed “PS,”
contained a host of other personal items unrelated to the shooting,
including heartburn medication, breath mints, a wallet, a passport, a
change purse and cellphones.

The lawyer asked why authorities had
not tested a blood sample they took from Spector after the shooting for
the presence of Viagra.

Detective Mark Lillienfeld said he could
not answer, because he did not know whether such tests were
possible.

“Do you have any evidence whatsoever that Mr. Spector
took Viagra that night?” pressed Brunon.

“I do not,” the detective
acknowledged.

Later, however, under questioning from a prosecutor,
Lillienfeld said that in his mind, the Viagra was potentially important
for establishing what had occurred in Spector's residence before the
shooting.

“I thought at that time, as I do today, that this murder
had sexual overtones to it and the Viagra would prove or disprove
certain facts,” Lillienfeld said.

A valise found in Phil Spector's
house contained a pack of Viagra.

He
added that he saw other signs of a romantic encounter in the suburban
mansion. The lights were off, candles were burning on a mantel and there
was alcohol and glasses in the living room and a bathroom, he
said.

Spector, 67, remained as the detective
testified. He is charged with murder and faces 15 years to life in
prison if convicted. He maintains Clarkson, 40, shot herself, either
accidentally or in a depression over career woes.

are
to begin presenting evidence Wednesday afternoon of evidence allegedly
removed from the death scene by defense expert Dr. Henry Lee. A former
defense attorney and a former defense investigator are scheduled to take
the stand.

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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (Reuters) - After more than a century
on the fringe of America's consciousness, Mormons are riding a
wave of media attention and public scrutiny — and say they
welcome the chance to set a few things straight.

From Mitt Romney's bid to become the first Mormon in the
White House to Public Broadcasting Service's four-hour
documentary on Mormonism in May and a Hollywood movie opening
this month focusing on one of Mormon history's darkest
episodes, the religion is moving into the open.

“We welcome it,” Elder D. Todd Christofferson, a member of
the Presidency of the Seventy, a church leadership body, said
of the sudden attention.

“To the extent that attention can be informative as opposed
to pejorative and there's a sincere interest and honest
curiosity, I think that's positive,” he said.

But areas the church would rather forget are sharing the
limelight, including its awkward ties to nearly 40,000
fundamentalist Mormons who practice polygamy, which the church
introduced before the Civil War and then banned in 1890.

“Big Love,” HBO's series about a fictional polygamous
family headed by a Viagra-popping husband in Utah, begins its
second season this month, while Mormon fundamentalist leader
Warren Jeffs will keep Americans tuned in to a real-life
polygamous drama at his trial in September.

“We see them as in violation of civil law and in violation
of church law,” Christofferson said of Utah's polygamists.

VIEW ON POLITICS

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the
sect based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is formally known, is the
U.S. religion and one of the richest, with 12.9
million members globally and an estimated $5 billion in annual
revenue. More than half live outside the United States.

But Americans know little about it and are often skeptical
of its beliefs. Thirty percent surveyed by the Pew Forum on
Religion and Public Life in February said they would be less
likely to back a Mormon for president, while 46 percent in a
Gallup poll said they had an unfavorable opinion of Mormons.

Dr. Richard Land, the conservative president of the
Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said
Mormonism's biggest skeptics are not evangelical Christians but
those who shun all organized religion. “They tend to look at
Mormons as religion on steroids,” he said.

In an interview, Christofferson sought to dispel several
misconceptions, such as whether Romney would
take direction from the church's 96-year-old president, who is
revered as a living prophet who speaks the word of God, if the
Republican was elected to the White House.

“In our view the first loyalty of a member of the Church in
his role as a government official is to the nation and his
constituency,” he said.

“Even where the church has taken a firm or vigorous
position on something, which we do occasionally, if a member as
a government officer votes in a different way or contrary to
the church's position there's no church censure, there's no
church discipline applied,” he said.

GROWTH PEAKING?

He said the church was growing by about a million members
every three to five years, a pace below previous official
estimates of a million every three years. Experts say the rate,
while fast relative to the Roman Catholic Church and some other
religions, has slowed, especially in the United States.

“Retention is a problem for them, as it is in other
religions, and it's going to take another two or three more
years for us to know whether growth has peaked,” said Jan
Shipps, a Mormon expert and professor emeritus of American
religion and history at Indiana University/Purdue University.

Christofferson said the church, which opposes abortion in
most cases and gay marriage, is not pressing U.S. public
schools to teach “intelligent design,” which argues some forms
of life are too complex to have simply evolved, although Mormon
scriptures teach God directed the creation of life.

He said the Mormon church encourages political activism but
adheres to the separation of church and state and does not
officially support a candidate in the White House race,
although Mormons and many prominent Utah residents are among
the top donors to Romney's well-funded political campaign.

“It's a matter certainly of interest here,” he said.

The church, founded in upstate New York in 1830 by Joseph
Smith, has long struggled for mainstream acceptance. Many
evangelical Christians are taught that Mormonism is a cult with
a heretical interpretation of Scripture and doctrine.

Although Mormons revere Christ as Savior and consider
themselves devout Christians, they reject the unified Trinity
and teach God has a body of flesh and blood. They believe Smith
was a prophet instructed by God to restore his true church.

Guided by an angel named Moroni, Smith professed to have
discovered tablets written in what he called “reformed
Egyptian” hieroglyphics that told the story of the Book of
Mormon and detailing an ancient of Israelites sent
by God to America.

Smith was able to read and translate the tablets with the
help of special transparent stones he used as spectacles.

Christofferson said it was conceivable Mormonism could end
a ban on women in its lay priesthood as it did with blacks in
1978, if God directs the church president to do so in a
revelation. Revelations are a central tenant of Mormonism,
giving the religion flexibility to evolve.

“We think the Lord continues to reveal his will,” he said.

By Linda Deutsch

LOS ANGELES (AP) - From the moment he saw actress Lana Clarkson's dead body slumped in a chair in Phil Spector's mansion, a gun at her feet and blood soaking her short black dress, the lead investigator sensed “sexual overtones,” he testified Wednesday. Detective Mark Lillienfeld testified in Spector's murder trial that when he found a Viagra pill (Sildenafil Citrate) in the music producer's briefcase, it intensified his belief, and he seized it as evidence.

“I thought at that time, as I do today, that this murder had sexual overtones to it, and that the Viagra would prove or disprove certain facts,” the detective said.

Clarkson, 40, went home with Spector on Feb. 3, 2003, after closing time at the House of Blues, where she was a hostess. Two hours after they arrived at his suburban home, she was dead, slumped in a white French provincial chair in the foyer. She had been shot through the mouth.

Prosecutors contend Spector shot her; the defence says she shot herself.

Prosecutor Pat Dixon first elicited testimony about Viagra in the briefcase on Tuesday as he had the detective list what Spector had been carrying. He said that the Viagra container held one pill and that there were two empty slots.

Questioning the detective again Wednesday, he asked Lillienfeld to explain his of a sex crime. The witness described a romantically set scene in the elaborate living room.

“The home was dark. There were candles lit on the fireplace. There was alcohol out in front of the fireplace on a coffee table,” he said. Someone had left a nearly empty brandy snifter in the bathroom, along with a pair of false eyelashes, he added.

“Miss Clarkson, the way she was dressed, the person that she was, the person that the defendant was - all those facts in my mind played into a sexually motivated murder, and the Viagra was a piece of evidence that would perhaps prove later on to be important,” Lillienfeld said.

Defence attorney Bradley Brunon had raised the issue earlier, asking Lillienfeld whether he had any evidence that Spector took Viagra that night.

“I do not,” the detective said.

Noting that Lillienfeld examined Clarkson's clothing, Brunon asked, “You didn't find any tears or rips associated with someone tearing at her or pawing at her?”

“I did not,” Lillienfeld said.

The lawyer attempted to ask about the results of a rape of Clarkson but the witness said he did not know. Jurors have already heard that the examination was negative.

Spector, 67, rose to fame with the Wall of Sound recording technique in the 1960s. Clarkson was best known for her role in the 1985 movie “Barbarian Queen.