Phil Spector: Murderer!

the forensic evidence seems so massively stacked against him.

money buys "justice" once again.

aww man I just....I mean, none of us were on the jury, we didn't hear the whole trial, but...it does seem like he shot that poor woman.

I think its all his prior behavior combined with the forensic evidence that's really damning (but yes I'm not in the courtroom etc.)... still the whole inevitability of it, this is the kind of thing practically everyone that's known/worked with Spector has predicted would happen for so long and now that its happened he's gonna ... well what is he gonna do exactly? he can't become any more of a recluse/outcast than he already is...

In ten years, he'll be jacking people at conventions, stealing memoribila.

he's been crazy as fuck for years. why on earth would you go to a washed-up celebrities house after work and then decided to commit suicide at the last minute?

Maybe now that OJ's been arrested again there needs to be a new getting away with murder posterboy.

new on pichfork:

Phil Spector's Murder Trial Declared Mistrial

After about five months of testimony, the trial of legendary "Wall of Sound" producer Phil Spector ended in a mistrial today, September 26, according to an AP report.

Spector is charged with second-degree murder for the gun death of actress Lana Clarkson four-and-a-half years ago, but Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler declared the case a mistrial after each juror told him they were unable to reach a verdict.

Fidler made the decision on the 12th day of deliberations, and the foreman of the nine-man, three-woman jury revealed that there was a 10-2 deadlock without specifying which way they were leaning.

So far, there has been no talk of a retrial.

Also related to the trial-- though apparently not factoring into the decision to declare a mistrial-- is authorities' investigation into a possible threat to Fidler made via a post to a "Team Spector" MySpace page.

The post said, "I love Phil Spector" and "The Evil Judge should DIE!!!!." It was signed "xoxo Chelle"-- a reference to Spector's wife Rachelle-- and later taken down, according to Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini.

Christopher Plourd, one of Spector's defense attorneys, denied Rachelle Spector's involvement in the incident.

A few weeks ago, Fidler and Rachelle Spector clashed over her communication with the media about the case outside of court, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

Mistrial declared in Phil Spector murder case

A woman who testified against Phil Spector at his murder trial last year has died, but prosecutors vowed Monday that the loss would not substantially affect the music producer's second trial.

http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/08/ap/music/main3684887.shtml

Verdict to be announced in an hour.

regardless of what they decide, this whole thing is still depressing in about 20 different ways.

Why does everyone in the comments seem to hope he goes down? (yeah, I know, don't read news site comments, it's bad for my nerves, but I can't help it)

Why does everyone in the comments seem to hope he goes down?

because there's every indication that he is, in fact, guilty as fuck?

I had the impression that it wasn't as clear as that, but if it is, then OK.

i dunno i read a couple long form articles about it that -- even accounting for what i would suspect was a anti-spector bias -- seemed to suggest that him and his lawyers story was mega suspect at best, pretty much sounded like outright bullshit.....not withstanding the man's considerable history with guns, being abusive, crazy, paranoid, etc etc etc

Spector's defense - that she was drunk and depressed, took his gun (after it got his prints on it), and shot herself in the face - is a little um wtf. Especially given that immediately afterwards he wandered outside, gun in hand, and said to his driver "I think I killed somebody". Plus a history of being an abusive mysoginistic loon and habit of threatening all kinds of people with firearms... yeah I think the guy is guilty as fuck. so to speak.

yeah his alibi wouldn't have even supported a 15 minute episode of Matlock IMO

and said to his driver "I think I killed somebody"

LOL

I think for people who knew him, the reaction wasn't "phil shot someone?!" it was more "surprised that didn't happen sooner ... and lucky it wasn't me."

guilty

cannot find video of Beavis saying "give him the chair"

i couldn't find the story, is the verdict out now?

Music producer Phil Spector has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson.

yeah, its a headline along the top on the bbc site

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/04/phil-spector-verdict-lana-clarkson.html

cannot find video of Beavis saying "give him the chair"

Is this a death-penalty case? (It may no longer be now, for other reasons, but was it ever?)

no its not. he's facing 18 years (I doubt he'll get that much)

Spector arrived in court Monday wearing a "Barack Obama" button.

no, I just wanted to play Beavis

where's Marcello

Marcello has a cast iron alibi so don't even try it.

lolz - nah there was just some other thread where Marcello was giving me shit for assuming Spector's guilt and I was sorta flabbergasted that anyone (esp someone who's researched Spector exhaustively) would buy his alibi

no its not. he's facing 18 years (I doubt he'll get that much)

oops its 18 years TO LIFE... dude's gonna duy in the can

die even

It's like I should feel sadness or pity about this entire tragedy, but we always knew that Spector was nuts so the fact that his stupid habits finally led to someone's death isn't much of a surprise. It feels like nothing has really changed, and therefore I don't feel much of anything at all about this.

I guess for the family of the murdered woman there's some satisfaction about justice being done. But she's still gone.

"He can't hide behind the wall of sound now..." opening line of the 11 O'clock news (CBS Los Angeles).

"He Shot Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)"

"You've lost that murder retrial
Baby, that murder retrial..."

Stay classy, CBS Los Angeles

Prison folks will sing 'Be my baby' as the welcome song

where's Marcello

ha, was coming here to see if anyone asked this. no doubt he's on a plane, with a list of the jury's home addresses, to give them the hairdryer treatment.

Yesterday's mug shot: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/spectormugshot1.html

Ehhhhhh... imo Spector lives (and brings to life in his music) the creepy pathologies that Nick Cave has made a career out of method-acting.

tru, forever classic just for that

because obviously actually killing people is way more awesome than just singing about it.

it's more authentic

it's time to stop romanticizing the whole "dude pulled a gun on the Ramones in the studio!" stuff...

dunno if people romanticized that sort of thing -- the moral of those stories was always that Phil was a weird, fucked up dude, not that Phil was supercool or something.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 12:57 PM I Love Music Thread: Phil Spector: Murderer? had its title updated to: Phil Spector: Murderer!