Prosecutors Want Spector To Face Up To 19 Years In Prison
Phil Spector
If Los Angeles prosecutors get things their way, convicted murderer Phil Spector will be in jail for at least 19 years. He is 69 years-old.
In court documents filed on Tuesday, prosecutors are hoping a sentence of 19 years to life in state prison for Spector. He is scheduled to be sentenced on May 29.
Last month Spector was convicted of second degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of Lana Clarkson. He has been in custody since the jury verdict was read at his second trial. The first trial, in 2007, was a dead-end.
Spector denied the murder of Clarkson. His lawyers said Clarkson was depressed about her career and committed suicide with a shot to the mouth at his pretend castle in suburban Los Angeles.
Prosecutors argued that the shooting of Clarkson was part of a pattern of gun play. They also stated the violence that Spector displayed toward women in the past.
“Lana Clarkson was the last in a series of victims to suffer homicidal assaults at the hands of Phil Spector,” Alan Jackson, a prosecutor, wrote in his sentencing recommendation.
“This court heard from six women — each of whom recounted the chilling details of their encounters with Spector in which Spector pulled guns on them and promised that he could and would kill them,” Jackson wrote.
In another document, the prosecution asked the judge to order Spector to pay over $16,800 to Clarkson’s family and $9,740 toward the cost of her funeral and burial.
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