Phil Spector Gets 19 Years to Life

Famed pop producer Phil Spector faced the music today, as he was sentenced in Los Angeles Superior Court to 19 years to life for the second-degree murder of Lana Clarkson, reports Reuters. Prosecutors argued at trial that Spector's shooting of Clarkson was part of a pattern of violent behavior he had displayed toward women for 20 years, describing him as a bully and saying that he had a problem controlling his anger, the news agency notes. Convicted in April of shooting the 40-year-old actress and restaurant hostess to death in his home in 2003, Spector had to get a mandatory 15-year-to-life term, reports the L.A. Now blog of the Los Angeles Times.

Phil Spector Gets 19 Years to Life abajournal.com Sat, May 30, 2009