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DA's office came, saw, and conquered with a sentence that paves a long way to be happy for Spector

By Jonathan Hayter

After a little over two weeks of deliberations, a jury in Los Angeles found Phil Spector guilty of second-degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of Lana Clarkson.  The 69-year-old faces a mandatory life sentence, with 18 years to be served before being considered for parole.

Doron Weinberg, Spector's attorney, immediately said he would appeal and asked that the famed music producer remain free on $1-million bail until the sentence was imposed.  Judge Larry Paul Fidler, having heard extensive testimony from women who said Spector terrorized them at gunpoint, remanded him to jail immediately.

Weinberg said the judge's decision to allow those women to testify about events stretching back three decades would be among the grounds for appeal.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).