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On This Day in 2009, Disgraced Music Producer Was Convicted of Murder Following Hung Jury Mistrial

On this day 17 years ago, famed record producer Phil Spector was convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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It has been 17 years to the day since disgraced music producer Phil Spector was convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson. The conviction came after a five-month retrial.

Clarkson, 40, was murdered in February 2003. She had been shot in the head. The night before her body was found, she had been out with Spector. The two went back to Spector’s mansion, dubbed the Pyrenees Castle, in Alhambra, California.

According to reports, Spector’s limo driver claimed that Spector came out of the house at one point with a gun in his hand. The driver alleged that Spector said he thought he’d “killed........

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