[stinkyboy]

Go away ya freak:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/13/phil.spector.verdict/index.html?iref=mpstoryview


Edit: If he's out on bond, I predict suicide.

 

[IH8Rice]

took the jury 30 hours huh?...i woulda thought it would have been 3 minutes

Edit: If he's out on bond, I predict suicide.

Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler declined to allow Spector to remain free on bail pending sentencing, citing Spector's years-long "pattern of violence" involving firearms.

edit: if he was tried in 2007 and got a mis-trial, why wouldnt this trial be considered double jeopardy?

 

[Silver]

edit: if he was tried in 2007 and got a mis-trial, why wouldnt this trial be considered double jeopardy?

Generally, a mistrial means that no judgement has been rendered either way, therefore double jeopardy doesn't apply.

 

[Serial Midget]

The wall of sound will never die!!!

 

[IH8Rice]

Generally, a mistrial means that no judgement has been rendered either way, therefore double jeopardy doesn't apply.

gotcha...i thought even though there was no judgment, he was tried and therefore adding to his current case and double jeopardy.

thnx

 

[jimmydean]

I hope he grows his hair out again and gets some awesome prison tattoos.

 

[sanjuro]

I like his new hair.

 

[Serial Midget]

He'll look like Amy Winehouse when he gets in...

 

[X3pilot]

He'll be somebody's little baby...

Just like Ronnie sang

By her own account, he kept her a near-prisoner and limited her opportunities to pursue her musical ambitions. In her autobiography, she said that he would force her to watch the film Citizen Kane to remind her she would be nothing without him.

Spector's domineering attitude led to the dissolution of their marriage. Bennett was forbidden to speak to the Rolling Stones or tour with the Beatles, for fear of infidelity. Bennett claims Spector showed her a gold coffin with a glass top in his basement, promising to kill and display her should she leave him. During Spector's reclusive period in the late 1960s, he reportedly kept his wife locked inside their mansion. She claimed he also hid her shoes to dissuade her from walking outside, and kept the house dark because he didn't want anyone to see his balding head. Spector's son later claimed that he was kept locked in his room, with a pot in the corner to be used as a toilet. Ronnie Spector did leave the producer and filed for divorce in 1972. She wrote a book about her experiences, and said years later, "I can only say that when I left in the early 1970s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there"

Yeah, he'll be a bitch..

 

[4xBoy]

He has escaped custody,










































Phil Spector has escaped from custody and is on the da do run run.

 

[IH8Rice]

ya had me there

 

[stinkyboy]

Bye bye!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/29/national/main5049489.shtml

(CBS/AP) Music producer Phil Spector has been sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson.

A Los Angeles judge sentenced Spector on Friday to 15 years to life for second-degree murder and four years for personal use of a gun. The judge is also ordering restitution payments.

A jury convicted the 69-year-old Spector in the fatal shooting of Clarkson at his home in 2003.

Spector plans an appeal.

The 40-year-old Clarkson, star of the 1985 cult film "Barbarian Queen," died of a gunshot fired in her mouth as she sat in the foyer of Spector's mansion in 2003. She met Spector only hours earlier at her job as a nightclub hostess.

The conviction came during Spector's second trial. His first jury deadlocked 10-2, favoring conviction in 2007.

Prosecutors argued at trial Spector had a history of threatening women with guns when they tried to leave his presence.

The defense claimed she killed herself.

The murder case was a flash from Hollywood's distant past, a reminder of the 1960s when Spector reigned as the hit maker supreme with such songs as the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin"' and the Ronettes' classic, "Be My Baby."

Spector, who had long lived in seclusion at his suburban Alhambra "castle," was out on the town in Hollywood when he met Clarkson on Feb. 3, 2003, at the House of Blues. The tall blond actress, recently turned 40 and unable to find acting work, had taken a job as a hostess. When the club closed in the wee hours, she accepted a chauffeured ride to Spector's home for a drink. Three hours later, she was dead in the foyer of his mansion.

Spector's chauffeur, the key witness, said he heard a gunshot, then saw Spector emerge holding a gun and heard him say: "I think I killed somebody."

Defense attorney Doron Weinberg disputed whether the chauffeur remembered the words accurately. In closing arguments, Weinberg listed 14 points of forensic evidence including blood spatter, gunshot residue and DNA, which he said were proof of a self-inflicted wound.

"It's very difficult to put a gun in somebody's mouth," he said.

"Every single fact says this is a self-inflicted gunshot wound," Weinberg argued. "How do you ignore it? How do you say this could have been a homicide?"

But prosecutors portrayed Spector as a dangerous man who became a "demonic maniac" when he drank and had a history of threatening women with guns. They also contended blood spatter evidence proved that Clarkson could not have shot herself.

As in the first trial, they presented testimony from five women who told of being threatened by a drunken Spector, even held hostage in his home, with a gun pointed at them and threats of death if they tried to leave. The parallels with the night Clarkson died were chilling even if the stories were very old - 31 years in one instance.

Clarkson's mother and sister sat through both trials and Spector's young wife, Rachelle, sat across the courtroom from them.

Prosecutors, haunted by the acquittals of stars such as O.J. Simpson, Robert Blake and Michael Jackson, at first seemed invested in making Spector the first showbiz star to be convicted in a major criminal case. But after the first trial ended in a deadlock, public interest faded. The second six-month trial was played out in a sparsely populated courtroom with few members of the media present.

During jury selection, only a few panelists remembered Spector's heyday as the inventor of the "Wall of Sound" recording technique and producer of teen anthems including, "To Know Him is to Love Him," The Crystals' "Da Doo Ron Ron" and "He's a Rebel" and Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep-Mountain High." He also worked on a Beatles album with John Lennon.

 

[stinkyboy]

 

[Serial Midget]

It's astounding - time is fleeting - madness takes its toll

 

[IH8Rice]

jebus. he looks like he'd rape your kids then eat them

 

[MMike]

It's astounding - time is fleeting - madness takes its toll

But listen closely....not for very much longer...I've got to....keep control

 

[jimmydean]

jebus. he looks like he'd rape your kids then eat them

He's been training for his prison term, I guess.

 

[stevew]

they took his rug away?

 

[jimmydean]

Or at least his Rogaine.

 

[sanjuro]

Gol-lum! Gol-lum!

 

[JohnE]

Wow...the likeness is, like-y. He really should consider legal action.