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Spector Murder Trial Goes to the Jury

Posted Sep 8th 2007 11:14AM by TMZ Staff

Five months after it began, the murder trial of crazy-haired music legend Phil Spector ended Friday.

Spector was tried for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson. The prosecution alleged that he murdered Clarkson in February 2003, just after she entered his Alhambra, Calif. mansion. The defense argued that Clarkson committed suicide, claiming that she was depressed and had planned to kill herself. Miss Clarkson, 40, died after being shot in the mouth.

The prosecutor alleged that Spector has a history of terrorizing women, and that on the night of Clarkson's death, he emerged from the home with a gun and said to his chauffeur, "I think I killed somebody." The defense countered that the chauffeur was mistaken and that there was no scientific evidence linking the gun to Phil.

Spector, 67, was charged with second-degree murder, and if convicted, faces 15 years to life in prison.

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46. linda baden & her baden husband suck . and that baden women looks like she took time off to get some plastic surgery ...I will never trust badens expertise in forensics and I hope all the cable and news channels can him from thier airwaves...Phil spector had it in for someone that night all the other women rejected him and when lana approached him with a good evening madame may I help you...that pretty much sealed her fate..he wasn't going to let her get away with that..he started terrorrizing her in the car.."Kiss tonight goodbye"...he more than likely tried to seduce her ...I can just see her sobbing and taking off her eyelashes and then trying to leave..and spector shinning-up the gun for his defense.....He is evil and a killer and defense attorneys like his are about the same in caliber.

Posted at 5:09PM on Sep 16th 2007 by Hope he doesn't get away with murder!

47. He is GUILTY! He is also guilty of being ugly and sporting that ugly hair do and trying to
be blonde with that old old mug. Too old for that color. Maybe somebody should do a
thorough check on his and Don Imus' ancestory, I think they are related if not by blood than by at least by UGLINESS!

Posted at 9:39PM on Sep 8th 2007 by Go With The Flow

48. I hate this ugly, guilty bastard. The jury just has to look in his mean eyes. If he was innocent, he would have been up on the stand telling how she found the gun in his draw.took her purse, sat down and pulled the trigger with two painful wrists..YEA RIGHT

Posted at 11:05PM on Sep 8th 2007 by JOANIE

49. I agree # 1 but hope that we are both surprised and they find him GUILTY.

Posted at 10:32PM on Sep 8th 2007 by Mark

50. "...............................ew, cough, gag....
WHO IS SHE................................................. ?
WHO WAS SHE............................................ ?
WHO DOES SHE HOPE TO BE................. ?"

Posted at 10:44PM on Sep 8th 2007 by HAROLD, a very private birthday party on Christopher St

51. GUILTY

Posted at 12:10AM on Sep 9th 2007 by Corey Cotta

52. clearly he looks schizo. he belongs in a mental hospital

Posted at 4:21AM on Sep 9th 2007 by Here comes the judge

53. PHIL SPECTOR IS PROBABLY INNOCENT.
Lana Clarkson was a drug addict and alcoholic. I knew her. She was a user.
She was also a high-dollar prostitute who was always broke because her money was going up her cokehead nose.
She had episodes of psychosis in which she heard voices.
I wouldn't be surprised if she shot herself. She was over the top right on the edge.

Posted at 7:54AM on Sep 9th 2007 by Susanna

54. He's guilty & I hope his money will probably acquit him but I hope not. He had a habit playing with guns & this time, the gun went off.

Posted at 9:26AM on Sep 9th 2007 by Reine

55. Ha. Kathy Griffin goes to the bottom of the list again behind a accused murder and a few people who I care about even less then Kathy. And WTF is up with that hair, what a trainwreck. Her handlers must just laugh their asses off at her when she's not around. I would.

Posted at 11:25AM on Sep 9th 2007 by Nikk

56. to me his guilt comes down to his driver saying Phil said "I think I killed somebody", her purse being on her arm, the 5 women that didn't even know each other testifying that he pulled guns on them and his crazy defense. what woman would have to be begged to go to someone's house after work, just bought 7 pairs of shoes, and decided to kill herself in a total stranger's house? If anything I could believe accidental, but suicide? no way but as the prosecutor said, "it doesn't matter how the gun went off, it is still his fault for having the gun in her face". I think he is guilty as hell and if he was poor or being tried anywhere but LA he would be found guilty in a heartbeat but they let Robert Blake off so in LA anything is possible. This man is crazy and if he gets off with this, it will be open season on women in LA.

Posted at 11:27AM on Sep 9th 2007 by lona

57. Alan Jackson is the best prosecutor I have ever seen but I think he should have ended it the way he began. If you saw her deciding to get in Phil's, what would you whisper to her? "don't go, don't go". I think that was powerful and it would have been great to end with that

Posted at 11:33AM on Sep 9th 2007 by lona

58. sorry, meant to say if you saw her getting in Phil's car on my previous post.

Posted at 11:47AM on Sep 9th 2007 by lona

59. Between his pistol whipping past, and having threatened to kill people, his volatile character, I do not believe that Lana killed herself. I also do not believe that he intentionally murdered her. None of us will EVER know if she was sitting in that chair with her purse over her shoulder, waiting to exit his home OR if she was doing some last minute "casting" for him.....for whatever strange reason, BUT, it was HIS gun and he has a long, long history of pistol whipping and threatening to KILL men AND women with guns. He is guilty.....maybe not of pre-meditated murder, but of accidentally killing her. He put the gun in her mouth, and told her to kiss it.........he has done it to other women. That is what he did to her. Somehow, the trigger was pulled....he then told his driver he killed someone, and before the police got their, he put the gun under her leg, went into the bathroom and attempted to wash her blood off his hands leaving a couple blood and water soaked towels behind, went upstairs to his closet and touching a jacket, debating on whether or not to change his clothes, left her blood on that jacket in his closet, in his room. He then went back downstairs, and stood over her body, staring at her with his guilty hands shoved in his pockets until the police arrived. Police told him to remove his hands from his pockets. He refused and became beligerent with the police. They had to tase him to get him into cuffs and the cruiser. He is a self proclaimed "evil genious", mad-man, who takes the equivolent of antipsychotic medications, and has a long history of being abusive to people, for most his adult life. If he does not do SOME time, justice will not be served.

SO, PEOPLE, YOUNG AND OLD, HEED MY WARNING and BEWARE OF WHOM YOU CHOOSE CLIMB INTO LIMO'S WITH. YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF STUCK IN A MANSION WITH A CRAZED LUNATIC WHO DOES NOT WANT YOU TO LEAVE...........COMPLETELY BY YOURSELF, JUST THE TWO OF YOU........GATES LOCKED, AND HE'S GOT PLANS FOR YOU THAT ARE NOT GOING TO BE PLEASANT.......

Posted at 11:52AM on Sep 9th 2007 by Take Heed

60. JOANIE and Iona, I agree with you both. AND she did have both her wrists that had been badly broken, with surgeries on each just the year before! She did not pick that gun up and pull the trigger herself. Can you imagine how scared she must have been those last few moments of her life? He terrorized her, I believe. No she wasn't a saint, or perfect......but she certainly did not deserve to meet this brutal, bloody fate at the hands of wacko Phil Spector........who has such a LONG history of violence with guns, anyways! I sure hope we see some justice here.

Posted at 11:59AM on Sep 9th 2007 by Take Heed

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