The trial just started, more than four years after B-movie actress Lana Clarkson was killed in Phil Spector's home outside of Los Angeles on February 3, 2003. This celebrity court case will determine if pioneering rock producer Phil...
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The trial just started, more than four years after B-movie actress Lana Clarkson was killed in Phil Spector's home outside of Los Angeles on February 3, 2003. This celebrity court case will determine if pioneering rock producer Phil Spector was guilty of the murder.
They say the suit makes the man. But the corollary is light-socket hair makes even the well-dressed man scary. In the first picture of "Wall of Sound" writer and producer Harvey Philip Spector, murder seems like the least heinous thing the fellow did. In the second picture taken at the trial, he seems quite congenial and pleasant, perhaps ready to give Tina Turner some sage, fatherly advice about leaving her abusive husband Ike.
Who is the real Phil Spector? The jury in his murder trial... Read Full Story
Even if Phil Spector hadn’t given us the recent spectacle of an outlandish murder trial, Mick Brown’s Spector biography Tearing Down the Wall of Sound would still make for a gripping read. Brown’s biography, simply put, is the definitive Spector book. At nearly 500 pages (including endnotes and an extensive bibliography), Tearing consistently treads the thin line between exhaustive and exhausting, but the source material–Spector’s insane life–is simply too compelling to ever earn a yawn... Read Full Story
LOS ANGELES - A California court panel has decided that the retrial of Phil Spector on a murder charge can proceed.
A state appeals court on Friday rejected a defence request to halt the trial.
The...
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Seems that the media frenzy surrounding the Phil Spector trial will continue into 2008. The judge declared a mistrial for this jury. The jury became deadlocked...most of them voting guilty but a couple of them still on the fence. "Even on the jury there's deep regret that we were unable to reach a unanimous verdict," said the foreman to reporters after the mistrial was declared. "We would have liked to have a psychological profile of Lana Clarkson," another juror said. "The people who... Read Full Story
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Jurors in Phil Spector’s upcoming murder retrial should be allowed to hear testimony about blood evidence and the autopsy of the actress he is accused of shooting, prosecutors argued in court documents.
The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office opposed a motion by Spector’s lawyers to exclude testimony presented at the music producer’s first trial by three forensics experts. They include Dr. Louis Pena, who testified that he conducted an autopsy and concluded Lana... Read Full Story