When speaking to his accountant, Ben references his tax return that the accountant had prepared in the past. But in The Celebrity (1991), Ben tells Julie he can't go to California with her because he's preparing his own taxes. When Julie suggests he hire an accountant, he admits that he's too cheap to do that.
At the victim's house: Bob Brooks is talking to Leo when an officer enters the house with the murder weapon and says it was found in Leo's car. There was no search warrant presented so the search would have been illegal and the evidence not admissible.
Correction: Searching a vehicle is an exception to the search warrant requirement. If the police have probable cause to believe that evidence exists in a vehicle, they have the right to search that vehicle for that evidence. And, in this particular case, the evidence was found on the floor of the car so it might have been in plain sight which also would not require a search warrant.
Correction: Searching a vehicle is an exception to the search warrant requirement. If the police have probable cause to believe that evidence exists in a vehicle, they have the right to search that vehicle for that evidence. And, in this particular case, the evidence was found on the floor of the car so it might have been in plain sight which also would not require a search warrant.
When Spidell is repeatedly replaying the tape of Ben yelling "Lousy!", his thumb doesn't move from button to button on the remote control, indicating that he isn't actually controlling the VCR.