Mistrial Declared in Phil Spector Case
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LOS ANGELES — The murder trial of a music producer, Phil Spector, ended in a mistrial today because of a deadlocked jury.
Each juror told Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler they could not reach a verdict.
The mistrial came on the 12th day of deliberations on whether Mr. Spector murdered actress Lana Clarkson more than 4½ years ago.
Mr. Spector, 67, is charged with second-degree murder. Clarkson, 40, died when a gun went off in her mouth as she sat in a chair in the foyer of Mr. Spector’s Alhambra mansion about 5 a.m. on February 3, 2003. She had met Mr. Spector just a few hours earlier at her job as a nightclub hostess and went home with him for a drink after work.
