Phil Spector Found Guilty Of Second-Degree Murder
Posted April 13, 2009 12:00 pm.
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Music producer Phil Spector has been convicted of second-degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.
A jury in Los Angeles Superior Court returned the verdict Monday following about 30 hours of deliberations.
Clarkson died of a gunshot fired in her mouth in Spector’s mansion. The 40-year-old had met the music producer hours earlier at her job as a nightclub hostess.
Prosecutors argued that Spector had a history of threatening women with guns. The defence, meanwhile, claimed that Clarkson committed suicide.
This was Spector’s second trial in Clarkson’s murder – the first trial ended with a deadlocked jury.
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