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The California Supreme Court unanimously declined to review music producer Phil Spector's murder conviction. Spector was serving a sentence of 19 years to life for the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.
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- Jurors, lawyers and Phil Spector toured his California mansion to see for themselves the site where actress Lana Clarkson had died four years earlier. Spector was on trial for her murder. On September 26, Judge Larry Paul Fidler declared a mistrial after a deadlocked jury voted 10–2 for conviction. At the second trial, Spector was convicted on April 13, 2009, and sentenced to 19 years to life.