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Phil Spector Gets 19 Years to Life in Prison

11:17  a.m. Department 106, L.A. County Criminal Courts BuildingJudge Fidler formally asks if the defense wishes to request a new trial. Doron Weinberg now moves for a new trial. Fidler denies motion for new trial. Weinberg offers two restitution checks, one for $16,811.82, to be given to Lana' ... More >>

Phil Spector Sentencing Has Begun

11:04 a.m. Dept. 106, Standing Room OnlyPhil Spector has just entered the courtroom wearing a chalk-striped suit with red tie and handkerchief. Judge Larry Paul Fidler as taken the bench. Alan Jackson is here for the prosecution although co-prosecutor Truc Do is absent. Doron Weinberg is here for th ... More >>

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Wall of Years: The Spector Verdict

And then he was gone, like Don Giovanni pulled into the underworld by the commendatore's ghost

Phil Spector Trial Ends, Spector Remanded to Jail

Rachelle Spector began crying as soon as the verdict was read.Defense Attorney asks for Spector to remain out on bail until his sentencing hearing.Deputy D.A. Alan Jackson requests "an immediate remand." He cites previous criminal history, although this seems more a reference to Spector's history of ... More >>

Wall of Years: Phil Spector Faces Mandatory Life Sentence

In the end, the jurors for Phil Spector's second murder trial did what the first jury did: They let Judge Larry Paul Fidler know their deliberations had reached a conclusion -- but late enough in the morning so that they would get one more catered lunch out of the case. The two panels' denouements w ... More >>

Nail Biter: Spector Jurors Ask About You-Know-What

As far as murder juries go, Phil Spector's second panel doesn't seem to be knocking itself out. They got the case on the afternoon of March 26 and almost immediately took off on a four-day weekend for the Cesar Chavez holiday. When jurors returned on April 1 it was to learn that one of their number ... More >>

Accidental Suicide? New Involuntary-Manslaughter Option in Phil Spector Murder Retrial

The final arguments: Shifting sand dunes, or rock-solid mountains?

Phil Spector Trial About to Resume

From Criminal Courts Building, Dept. 106Pre-trial hearing. Doron Weinberg complaining about not being told yesterday that Deputy District Attorney Alan Jackson was going to run 30 minutes past the closing hour of 4 p.m. with his closing rebuttal argument. Turns out Jackson had previously informed Ju ... More >>

Phil Spector Trial Jurors Get the Case

Today jurors in Phil Spector's murder trial got the case and began deliberations, after six months of testimony. Actually, for a while this week it seemed as though closing arguments were going to go on for another half year. This morning co-prosecutor Alan Jackson finished his rebuttal argument tha ... More >>

Phil Spector Trial: Weinberg Returns

From Criminal Courts Building, Dept. 1069:38 a.m.: Jurors have entered, with one chronically coughing."Some of you may wonder why I'm up here," Doron Weinberg opens. Today begins the defense lawyer's second day of closing arguments on behalf of Phil Spector, who is accused of second-degree murder in ... More >>

Doron Weinberg Returns -- Again -- To Close Phil Spector's Defense

Well, it didn't take long for that AP logo to get pulled off the podium mike that Doron Weinberg's been using. Possibly fearing that the podium could soon resemble a NASCAR pace car plastered with corporate logos, Alan Parachini, the chief public information officer for the Superior Courts, had th ... More >>

Phil Spector: The Burden of Truth

Like Woodrow Wilson, Doron Weinberg had 14 points he wanted to share with his audience. These had nothing to do with the status of Alsace-Lorraine, however, but with the emotional state of Lana Clarkson, the House of Blues VIP hostess who took a one-way ride to music producer Phil Spector's mansion ... More >>

Phil Spector's Lawyer Begins Closing Argument

From Superior Court, Department 106Defense lawyer Doron Weinberg has begun his closing argument on behalf of Phil Spector. Prior to the entrance of the jury in the second-degree murder trial, Weinberg had protested a video shown yesterday by prosecutor Truc Do, in which Judge Larry Paul Fidler appea ... More >>

Last Words from Phil Spector's Lawyer Continue

Yesterday I wasn't feeling the star power of Deputy District Attorney Truc Do, after watching the first hour or so of her closing argument. Do, who has co-prosecuted several high-profile cases over the past few years, including the Santa Monica Black Widows murder case and the Chester Turner serial ... More >>

This Is Not a Screensaver: Final Arguments Begin in Phil Spector's Trial

When Phil Spector, his wife Rachelle and Spector's bodyguard emerged from their black Lexus this morning, it was, finally, to an awaiting squad of TV news cameramen huddled at the top of the Superior Court's pedestrian ramp. After half a year of testimony that went largely ignored by the media, Sp ... More >>

Phil Spector's Trial Without End: "Now We're Back to Gist"

All around us there have been the signs of a change in seasons: Loquat trees are sprouting fruit, the Dodgers are in training and clocks have been set ahead. Even Phil Spector's second murder trial finally has its auguries of transition: The Associated Press' venerable Linda Deutsch was present toda ... More >>

Full Court Press: Dominick Dunne's Cameo at Phil Spector Retrial; Anand Jon's Explosive Evidence of Juror Shenanigans

Phil Spector Rings in 2009

It's an almost forgotten fact, but the murder retrial of legendary pop music producer Phil Spector, 68, is still unfolding in Judge Larry Fidler's downtown courtroom. You may remember that Spector's five-member legal team managed to win him a hung jury in 2007 -- leading to Spector II, which began a ... More >>

Spector Retrial Has Its Diarist

"Why isn't anyone covering the Spector trial?" asked Marc Germain, the veteran talk-show interviewer. Phil Spector photo by Ted Soqui I had no answer, other than that assignment editors across town deem it to be a pale sequel to the first trial, the B-side of a mid-chart hit. It's not that way to th ... More >>