NEW YORK — The Los Angeles District Attorney just filed a motion in Phil Spector’s pending murder case. The motion seeks to admit at the upcoming retrial yet another incident where Spector threatened a woman with a gun. Jurors in Spector’s first trial last year heard from five women who detailed remarkably similar experiences between 1988 and 1995.

 According to the filing, prosecutors learned about this new incident earlier this year. Norma Kemper had just been hired as Spector’s assistant in September 1996, a position she would hold for the next four years. Unlike one of Spector’s prior assistants, Dorothy Melvin, who also testified against him at last year’s trial, Kemper says she was never romantically involved with him.

The day after she was hired, Kemper was invited to dinner at Dan Tana’s with Spector and his friend, Jay Romaine. Kemper told investigators that Spector drank a lot during the meal and, at one point, leaned across the table to kiss her. When she rejected his advances, Spector allegedly opened his jacket and revealed a small handgun in a shoulder holster. He said: “You know I could kill you right now.”

An angry Kemper eventually calmed down. After leaving Dan Tana’s, they went to House of Blues, where seven years later Spector would meet Lana Clarkson. After some time, Kemper says she asked Spector to take her home. When he refused, she found a ride with a friend at the club.

Kemper told investigators that when Spector drank and took his psychiatric medications, his personality changed and he would become “mean.” It was established at last year’s trial that Spector was taking psychiatric medication on or about February 3, 2003 when Lana Clarkson died in the early morning hours by a single gunshot wound to the head. He had been drinking extensively throughout the evening.

The District Attorney wants to put Kemper on the stand to further establish Spector’s pattern of violence against women especially when he was drinking, was romantically interested in a woman who wasn’t necessarily interested in him and whom he wanted to control.

–Beth Karas, In Session correspondent