Verdict in phil spector murder trial

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She was attractive, well-liked and grew up in a comfortable, middle-class home. Born in Long Beach, her family moved near San Francisco when she was one and she became a veteran on horseback by the time she turned 10 years old, according to an online biography.

The media dubbed Clarkson a B-movie actress. Working with Roger Corman , the king of the B-movie world, she discovered she could get bigger roles in smaller films. Friends described her as happy but disappointed about her career the night she met Spector for the first time. She was working on reviving her film career. Spector asked her to come back to his place for a drink after another female employee turned him down. Clarkson was a beautiful person inside and out, according to her many friends.

At the time of her death, she volunteered for an HIV charity and did stand-up comedy about her years as a B-movie star. The proceedings were hip-deep in celebrities, from famous pathologist Dr. The first jury heard closing arguments by attorney and media personality Linda Kenney Baden. The defense asserted that Clarkson, who was shot in the mouth, committed suicide.

The cops had to taser Spector into submission. In his first trial, the jury heard ballistics evidence, listened to witnesses who confirmed Spector had a pattern of threats against women. The jury heard from police and emergency personnel who arrived at Pyrenees castle in the early morning hours of Feb.

Spector remained free on bail for months before his retrial, which began on Oct. The jury took the case on March 29, Their deliberation took 18 days of review and discussion, but this time they came to a unanimous verdict. His two colleagues said they had voted to convict, but the foreman refused to say how he had cast his vote. One of his colleagues, Ricardo Enriquez, told CourtTV Thursday the foreman was one of the two jurors who voted not guilty.

Asked Wednesday if Spector's celebrity had factored into their deliberations, Enriquez, a facilities manager, said no, but then added, "I think it bought him some experts," referring to the raft of forensic witnesses who testified for the defense. Enriquez said he dismissed those experts, who included well-known pathologists Dr. Michael Baden, Dr. Werner Spitz and Dr. Vincent DiMaio, as hired guns "with books to sell.

He said he found Baden's testimony "suspicious" because his wife, defense attorney Linda Kenney-Baden, was representing Spector. But, he said, other jurors felt the defense raised reasonable doubt with the expert's testimony that the death scene was inconsistent with murder.

The defense has said Spector's white dinner jacket would have been drenched in blood had he been standing within 3 feet of Clarkson at the time of the shot. Ronettes lead singer Veronica "Ronnie" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in , wrote in her autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse.

She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement. Writing on Instagram after her ex-husband's death , Ronnie Spector said he had been "a brilliant producer but a lousy husband". So much to love about those days. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.

Singer Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he "changed the sound of rock 'n' roll" but likened their relationship to "a bad marriage". Responding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: "When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other.

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