Phil Spector Found Guilty of Murder
By SOLOMON MOORE and RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
NYT
LOS ANGELES — Phil Spector, the rock music impresario behind hits like “Da Doo Ron Ron,” and “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling” was convicted Monday of murdering a struggling actress at his mansion in 2003 after a night of drinking.
Mr. Spector, 68, faces at least 18 years in prison. The jury, in a five-month trial, reached its unanimous decision after 27 hours of deliberating whether he shot the woman in a fit of anger or, as his lawyers argued, merely witnessed her suicide.
In addition to second-degree murder, the jury also found Mr. Spector guilty of illegally discharging a firearm.
This was the second murder trial in the case; the first ended in a hung jury in 2007. Mr. Spector has been out on bail for most of the last six years, but was immediately taken into custody after the verdict on Monday.
(More here.)
NYT
LOS ANGELES — Phil Spector, the rock music impresario behind hits like “Da Doo Ron Ron,” and “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling” was convicted Monday of murdering a struggling actress at his mansion in 2003 after a night of drinking.
Mr. Spector, 68, faces at least 18 years in prison. The jury, in a five-month trial, reached its unanimous decision after 27 hours of deliberating whether he shot the woman in a fit of anger or, as his lawyers argued, merely witnessed her suicide.
In addition to second-degree murder, the jury also found Mr. Spector guilty of illegally discharging a firearm.
This was the second murder trial in the case; the first ended in a hung jury in 2007. Mr. Spector has been out on bail for most of the last six years, but was immediately taken into custody after the verdict on Monday.
(More here.)
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