Phil Spector found guilty of 2nd degree murder

[Don Flamenco]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6984082.stm

 
US music producer Phil Spector has been convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson at his home in 2003.
The 68-year-old, famous for the "Wall of Sound" recording technique, faces between 15 years and life in prison.
He had pleaded not guilty to the second degree murder of 40-year-old Ms Clarkson, who was shot in the mouth at Spector's home in Los Angeles.

The trial, at the city's Superior Court, lasted five months and saw 77 witnesses take the stand.
Second degree murder falls between first degree murder, which requires proof of pre-meditation, and manslaughter.
Actress Clarkson, 40, had been working as a hostess at the House of Blues venue in Los Angeles, and went home with Spector on the night of her death.
After appearing in cult 1980s films such as Barbarian Queen and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, her acting career had hit the rocks.
Spector had arrived at the club with waitress Kathy Sullivan, before setting his sights on Ms Clarkson.
Spector's Brazilian chauffeur, Adriano De Souza, said his boss appeared to be intoxicated and that Ms Clarkson was initially reluctant to go home with the music producer.

Lana Clarkson appeared in cult 1980s film Barbarian Queen
She was found dead in the foyer of his house in the early hours of the morning.
A holster that matched the snub-nosed Cold Cobra revolver that Spector used to kill her was found in a drawer in the foyer.
Mr De Souza called the emergency services, saying: "I think my boss killed somebody", after Spector emerged from his home with a gun.
He told jurors Spector had said: "I think I killed somebody."
The producer was taken into custody about 40 minutes after the shooting and had to be subdued by officers using a stun gun.
The trial also heard from a number of women who said Spector had threatened them with guns in the past.
Defence lawyers had argued that Ms Clarkson's death was a suicide.
Spector himself decided not to give evidence.
The two sides in the trial closed their cases on 7 September.
The prosecution, speaking last, offered a dramatic animated video purporting to recreate the shooting, showing Spector within inches of Ms Clarkson's mouth.

Prolific career

"These are not evidence," prosecutor Pat Dixon said of the animations. "They are our view of what happened."
Spector's lawyer closed her case by asking jurors not to become "vigilantes", appealing to them not to judge the star on his eccentric appearance, or by stories of women who dated him.
The jury began their deliberations on 11 September, but returned to court after a week to say they were split over the verdict.
Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler ruled they would not be allowed to consider a lesser charge of manslaughter after hearing arguments from lawyers on both sides of the case.
Spector worked with some of the biggest names in the pop and rock business, including The Beatles and Ike and Tina Turner.
He produced hits including You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' by the Righteous Brothers and the Ronettes' Be My Baby.

whoa

[Flannel Boy]

He should get the chair






























for what he did to Let it Be

[TVC15]

I still love him

[Human Snorenado]

Are you trying to tell me that THIS MAN killed someone?



Cause I believe it.

[Flannel Boy]

I still love him

still?
he killed a woman; are you sure you don't live him more?

[TVC15]

[OptimoPeach]

Whenever I hear "wall of sound" I always picture that thing described in the film in VALIS.

[Great Rumbler]

It's been five and half years since he was first indicted.

[Joe Molotov]

Barbarian Queen was awesome, so screw him. Let him hang.

[recursivelyenumerable]

''I was flipped out at the time,'' Cohen would reflect later, ''and he certainly was flipped out. For me, the expression was withdrawal and melancholy, and for him, megalomania and insanity and a devotion to armaments that was really intolerable. In the state that he found himself, which was post-Wagnerian, I would say Hitlerian, the atmosphere was one of guns. The music was subsidiary. People were armed to the teeth, all his friends, his bodyguards, and everybody was drunk, or intoxicated on other items, so you were slipping over bullets, and you were biting into revolvers in your hamburger. There were guns everywhere.''

Cohen would later recall how on one occasion in the studio Spector approached him with a bottle of Manischewitz (Jewish ceremonial wine) in one hand and a pistol in the other, placed his arm around Cohen's shoulder, shoved the gun in his neck and said: ''Leonard, I love you.'' Cohen, with admirable aplomb, moved the barrel away, saying: ''I hope you do, Phil.''

[Great Rumbler]

''I was flipped out at the time,'' Cohen would reflect later, ''and he certainly was flipped out. For me, the expression was withdrawal and melancholy, and for him, megalomania and insanity and a devotion to armaments that was really intolerable. In the state that he found himself, which was post-Wagnerian, I would say Hitlerian, the atmosphere was one of guns. The music was subsidiary. People were armed to the teeth, all his friends, his bodyguards, and everybody was drunk, or intoxicated on other items, so you were slipping over bullets, and you were biting into revolvers in your hamburger. There were guns everywhere.''

Cohen would later recall how on one occasion in the studio Spector approached him with a bottle of Manischewitz (Jewish ceremonial wine) in one hand and a pistol in the other, placed his arm around Cohen's shoulder, shoved the gun in his neck and said: ''Leonard, I love you.'' Cohen, with admirable aplomb, moved the barrel away, saying: ''I hope you do, Phil.''

Wow. It's surprising he didn't kill someone sooner. 

[Don Flamenco]

Heard some brief biography about him on the radio-- all I remember is that the guy has reasons to be fucked in the head, though no excuse for murder, obviously. 

[twerd]

That accidental suicide from "kissing the gun" was the biggest piece of bullshit excuse.

[Joe Molotov]

Are you trying to tell me that THIS MAN killed someone?

(Image removed from quote.)

Cause I believe it.

Is this photoshopped??

No, that's an actual court photo from a few years ago.

[Eel O'Brian]

someone jokerize that picture

i normally hate that kind of thing but that picture is begging for it

[Andowsky]

In prison, he'll be the pie.

[Human Snorenado]

Are you trying to tell me that THIS MAN killed someone?

]http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/Images/Phil%20Spector.jpg

Cause I believe it.

Is this photoshopped??

No, but this one is.

[Fragamemnon]

he should dye his hair green and dress up for halloween as a chia pet

[chronovore]

There was evidence that the victim had a bruised tongue, implying that the gun had been forced in her mouth. Unlikely that a person does that when prepping to shoot herself.

Spector is about to be introduced to the "Wall of Repeated Beatings" production technique.