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Famous Record Producer Must Serve at Least 18 Years of a Mandatory Life Sentence

A Los Angeles jury convicted Phil Spector of second-degree murder Monday, making the legendary record producer who worked with the Beatles and a host of other pop stars the first celebrity found guilty of murder on Hollywood's home turf in at least 40 years. The verdict read in a tense, standing-room-only courtroom came six years and ...

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Spector Jury Has Reached a Verdict/ Guilty of second-degree murder

Phil Spector has been convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of actress Lana Clarkson six years ago. An L.A. Superior Court jury reached its decision against the legendary music producer after nine days of deliberations. An earlier jury deadlocked 10-2 in favor of guilt. The decision means the 69-year-old Spector, famed for his ...

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News: Music Industry

Phil Spector Jury Again Interrupted by Illness

For a second time, deliberations in Phil Spectors murder retrial have been interrupted by juror illness. The panel, which began weighing evidence March 26, went home at midday today after a juror became sick. Because of court holidays and a prior instance where a juror was ill, the panel has deliberated only about 27 hours over ...

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News: Music Industry

Spector's Long Legal Battles May Be Sapping His Fortune

The producer collects royalties from dozens of pop hits. But expenses from two criminal trials appear to be depleting his fortune. He's also facing a wrongful-death suit by Lana Clarkson's mother. When Phil Spector was booked for murder in 2003, he was a jet-setting millionaire who stayed in luxury hotel suites, left $450 tips on $13 ...

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News: Music Industry

Phil Spector's Second Murder Trial Winds Down as Jurors Allowed to Consider Lesser Charges

Phil Spector's Second Murder Trial Winds Down as Jurors Allowed to Consider Lesser Charges

Six years after actress Lana Clarkson died of a gunshot wound at Phil Spector's hilltop mansion, lawyers will once again deliver final arguments to a jury in the legendary music producer's murder trial. The question hanging over these proceedings is whether this jury, unlike the one at Spector's first trial 18 months ago, will be able ...

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News: Music Industry

Defense Rests in Phil Spector Murder Retrial

Defense Rests in Phil Spector Murder Retrial

Phil Spector's defense attorney rested his case Thursday in the music producer's murder retrial involving the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson. Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler advised Spector of his right to testify, but he chose not to take the stand in his own defense. Attorney Doron Weinberg concluded with testimony from forensic psychologist ...

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News: Music Industry

Date Set for Phil Spector New Trial

Date Set for Phil Spector New Trial

LOS ANGELES--A judge who is waiting for a California Supreme Court decision on whether he will preside over Phil Spector's second murder trial has gone ahead and set a new trial date of Sept. 29. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler said Thursday that whether he presides or another judge takes the helm a ...


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