The murder trial of music mogul Phil Spector is getting off to a slow start.

On Tuesday, Court was adjourned because of the May 1st Immigrant’s March in downtown Los Angeles.

Yesterday, May 2nd and today May 3rd the Court heard pre-trial motions regarding an accusation that Spector’s defense team was hiding evidence obtained at the crime scene the day after the death of Lana Clarkson.

A former law clerk for famed defense attorney, Robert Shapiro accused Phil Spector’s defense team of hiding a piece of evidence found at the scene of the actress’s death.

In a special hearing, the former law clerk said that a group of defense attorneys and experts including renowned forensic scientists, Dr. Michael Baden and Dr. Henry Lee were at the pop music producer’s foyer the day after the shooting when a lawyer spotted a “quite small white object” that the police had overlooked in the carpet.

No tooth fragment was turned over to authorities as law requires, and the Coroner has said that all the victim's teeth were accounted for.

Spector’s defense team vigorously disputed the testimony of Gregory Diamond who now works as a writer and television producer. They suggested that he had concocted a lie to profit from the high profile trial.

In a brief appearance on the witness stand the pathologist insisted that the incident never occurred and said he did not even remember Diamond’s presence at Spector’s home. Baden who is married to one of Spector’s attorneys, Linda Kenney-Baden, said that he had never been accused of manipulating evidence in a crime scene in his 47 years of professional work.

Neither the jurors who are due back Monday, nor Phil Spector himself, were present during these two days of hearings.

In testimony late today, it appears that Dr. Henry Lee may have discovered the white object in question and did not turn that object over to the prosecution. If this is found to be true, some form of sanction could be imposed upon the defense.