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Jury Reaches Verdict in Phil Spector Case
The jury in
Phil Spector's murder trial has signaled it has reached a verdict.
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The verdict will be read Monday afternoon. Spector and his wife entered the courtroom at about 2 p.m. His son and daughter were seated next to him at the counsel's table.
Members of the Lana Clarkson family, including her mother and sister, also were in the courtroom.
As of this morning, the jury had spent about 29 hours discussing the case over eight days since March 26.
Spector, 69, was charged with murder in the Feb. 3, 2003, shooting death of 40-year-old actress and House of Blues VIP hostess
Lana Clarkson at his mansion in
Alhambra. He claims she shot herself with his gun.
Los Angeles
Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler told jurors that they could consider convicting Spector of involuntary manslaughter instead of second-degree murder.
The option of involuntary manslaughter was not given in Spector's first trial. That jury deadlocked 10-2 in September 2007, with the majority voting in favor of convicting him of murder.
Spector, renowned in music circles for the "Wall of Sound" technique he invented in the 1960s and used in his work with the Beatles and other groups, is free on $1 million bail posted shortly after his arrest.
Clarkson, who was best known for her starring role in the 1985
Roger Corman cult hit "Barbarian Queen," had bit parts on dozens of television shows and in a few well-known movies, such as 1982's "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."