Spector’s retrial is delayed 5 months
A judge Friday delayed for at least five months the retrial of music producer Phil Spector, who is accused of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra mansion in 2003.
After Spector’s new lawyer, Doron Weinberg of San Francisco, argued that he would need at least four months to familiarize himself with the case, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler told attorneys to return May 22 to discuss when they will be ready for trial.
In September, after a four-month trial, jurors deadlocked 10 to 2 in favor of convicting Spector of second-degree murder. Prosecutors had argued that the 67-year-old rock music pioneer shot Clarkson when she tried to leave his home. Defense lawyers said the actress, 40, shot herself.
-- Molly Hennessy-Fiske
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