Grammy-winning music producer Phil Spector, 69, has been moved to a California prison to serve his sentence of 19 years to life for killing actress Lana Clarkson, corrections officials said.
A judge sentences Phil Spector to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson.
California corrections officials released a startling new prison mug shot of Grammy-winning music legend Phil Spector, convicted last month of second-degree murder and serving 19 years to life in prison.
The legendary producer had been convicted of second-degree murder in the 2003 shooting of Lana Clarkson
Music producer Phil Spector was sentenced Friday to the maximum sentence of 19 years to life for the murder six years ago of actress Lana Clarkson.
A jury convicts him of second-degree murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson
After about 30 hours of deliberation, a jury on Monday convicted music producer Phil Spector of second-degree murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson more than six years ago.
Phil Spector is found guilty of second-degree murder. Both sides speak out on the decision.
For the second time, Phil Spector awaits a jury's decision on his fate.
The on-again, off-again jury deliberations at Phil Spector's Los Angeles murder retrial are on again.
It's impossible to rule out the possibility that an actress committed suicide in music producer Phil Spector's home, and that he is being unjustly accused in her death, Spector's defense attorney told jurors in closing arguments Tuesday.
A six-man, six-woman jury began deliberating Thursday whether music producer Phil Spector is responsible for the death six years ago of an actress in his home.
The music producer's attorney insists the victim killed herself six years ago
Music producer Phil Spector, on trial for the second time in connection with the 2003 death of an actress at his home, is "a very dangerous man," a prosecutor told jurors Monday.
A prosecutor promised Wednesday to reveal "the real Phil Spector" as a dangerous gun nut whose "very rich history of violence" culminated in the alleged murder of an actress at his mansion.
A playwright who worked with Lana Clarkson a month before her death said the actress never displayed suicidal tendencies, but did voice disappointment about the trajectory of her career and worry about her future as an aging actress in Hollywood.
A panel of nine men and three women is hearing evidence against Phil Spector in the 2003 death of actress Lana Clarkson. They include a journalist once assigned to the case, the estranged wife of a convicted murderer, a civil engineer working on his PhD and a Broadway actor-turned-film executive. The average age of the panel is 48, about two decades younger than the defendant.
Her testimony lasted just two minutes, but the woman likely to be the final witness for Phil Spector's defense presented jurors Wednesday with a side of the music legend unheard of in the previous four months of his murder trial -- that of a responsible, devoted father.
The high-profile lawyer who once headed Phil Spector's legal team walked away from his defense entirely Monday after the music legend refused to let him deliver a closing argument at his murder trial.
Before he fell back into the spotlight for murder charges, legendary rock producer Phil Spector seemed to have retired to the life of a bon vivant, living in a Pyrenees castle he called home, courting pretty women he called friends, and casually slipping $100 bills into the hands of maître d's who never let him pay for his drinks.
A judge declared a mistrial in the murder case against music legend Phil Spector after a jury announced for the second time in eight days that it was hopelessly deadlocked.
The judge has declared a mistrial in Phil Spector's murder trial because the jury was deadlocked 10-2 and could not reach a verdict, it was announced Wednesday.
The jury in the murder trial of legendary music producer Phil Spector was due back in court at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) Wednesday, a day after telling the judge it had reached an impasse.
The jury in the murder trial of legendary music producer Phil Spector has "reached an impasse" after more than a week of deliberations, the trial judge said Tuesday.
Prosecutors closed their case against Phil Spector with sarcastic attacks on his team's scientific experts and called on jurors to do justice for the actress found shot to death in his home.
A prosecutor told jurors Wednesday to imagine what they would have said if they had been in a parking lot outside the House of Blues more than four years ago as record producer Phil Spector coaxed a reluctant Lana Clarkson to come to his home.
"Jurymen seldom convict a person they like, or acquit one that they dislike." -- Clarence Darrow
In the annals of celebrity crime, record producer Phil Spector's murder trial may stand as one of the strangest.
The final day of testimony in Phil Spector's trial began dramatically, with the music producer's often-absent lead defense lawyer announcing that he was leaving the case.
The defense tentatively rested in Phil Spector's murder trial Tuesday without calling the music producer to testify on his own behalf.
Legendary music producer Phil Spector's alleged admission that he shot actress Lana Clarkson is fair game for prosecutors to use at his murder trial, a Los Angeles judge has ruled.
The murder trial of legendary music producer Phil Spector has been delayed until a judge can determine whether defense lawyers are holding a piece of evidence that could help exonerate him.
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