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After Phil Spector was convicted of second-degree murder on April 13, 2009, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept. took this booking photo of the music producer. He was found guilty of shooting to death actress Lana Clarkson, 40, in his California home on Feb. 3, 2003.
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Phil Spector, center, watches jurors enter the courtroom with his attorney Doron Weinberg, left, before the verdict is read his trial in Los Angeles on Monday, April 13, 2009. The rock music producer was convicted at the end of a second trial on Monday of second-degree murder in the shooting death of film actress Lana Clarkson at his mansion six years ago.
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Legendary music producer Phil Spector sported several different looks over the course of his first trial for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson. Clarkson, 40, was shot to death on Feb. 3, 2003, in the foyer of Phil Spector's home in Alhambra, Calif. Spector was charged with her murder, but a jury was unable to reach a verdict and a judge declared a mistrial Sept. 26, 2007.
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Music producer Phil Spector arrives at the Los Angeles County Superior Court for a discovery hearing Friday, March 28, 2008, in downtown Los Angeles. Spector is being retried on charges of fatally shooting actress Lana Clarkson at his Alhambra mansion in February 2003. His defense said they would not be ready for trial until the fall.
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Music producer Phil Spector leaves the courtroom following the defense's closing arguments in his murder trial in Los Angeles on Friday, Sept. 7, 2007. Spector is accused of fatally shooting actress Lana Clarkson in his home in February 2003. Spector's appearance became comparatively conservative in the latter stages of his first trial.
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Music producer Phil Spector, center, his wife, left, and his attorney, Roger Rosen, leave L.A. Superior Court on March 19, 2007, for a break during the start of jury selection in Spector's murder trial. He is accused of the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson in February 2003.  Spector's appearance Monday was far more conservative than his typical look, which includes outlandish wigs and high-heeled boots.
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Phil Spector, center, his wife, Rachelle, attorney Roger Rosen, left, and a bodyguard leave L.A. Superior Court on Monday, March 19, 2007, for a break during the start of jury selection in Phil Spector's first murder trial. A jury faced conflicting evidence about what happened before police found actress Lana Clarkson, 40, slumped dead in a chair in Spector's home in 2003, her teeth blown out by a gunshot to her mouth.
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Legendary music producer Phil Spector sits during a pre-trial conference at the Los Angeles Superior Court on Oct. 27, 2005. Charged with murder, Spector pleaded not guilty and has been free on $1 million bail since his arrest. If convicted, he could face life in prison. In an e-mail to friends, Spector, 66, called the death of actress Lana Clarkson "an accidental suicide."
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Music producer Phil Spector leaves an evidentiary hearing in Alhambra Municipal Court on Feb. 17, 2004, in Alhambra, Calif. Spector is charged with the Feb. 3, 2003, shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson in the foyer of his hilltop home. Spector, the 1960s recording-studio wizard who created the "wall of sound" style of recording, worked with such stars as The Beatles, The Ronettes and Ike and Tina Turner.
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Record producer Phil Spector, center, leaves Alhambra Superior Court after his arraignment on one count of murder Nov. 20, 2003, in Alhambra, Calif. Spector, charged with murdering B-movie starlet Lana Clarkson at his hilltop mansion Feb. 3, pleaded not guilty at the arraignment.
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Music producer Phil Spector and his attorney, Leslie Abramson, attend an evidentiary hearing in Alhambra Municipal Court Feb. 17, 2004, in Alhambra, Calif.  Spector fired attorney Robert Shapiro and hired a new defense team, including Abramson, who called Spector "an idol, an icon and the definition of cool." She was later replaced.
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Legendary record producer Phil Spector, left, and attorney Robert Shapiro appear in Alhambra Superior Court for Spector's arraignment on one count of murder Nov. 20, 2003, in Alhambra, Calif. Shapiro was later fired.
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An aerial view of record producer Phil Spector's hilltop mansion, Pyrenes Castle, taken Feb. 3, 2003, in Alhambra, Calif. Spector was arrested the same day in connection with the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson at his home.
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Record producer Phil Spector, left, is transported in a passenger van from the Alhambra Police Department on Monday, Feb. 3, 2003, after being arrested for allegedly shooting a woman to death at his suburban mansion in Alhambra, Calif.
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Police officers inspect the home of record producer Phil Spector on Feb. 4, 2003, in Alhambra, Calif. Spector was arrested a day earlier for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, 40, at his 33-room mock castle, Pyrenes Castle.
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Actress Lana Clarkson, 40, was shot to death on Feb. 3, 2003, in the foyer of Phil Spector's home in Alhambra, Calif. She was working as a hostess at the House of Blues when she went home with Spector that night. He is charged with her murder. The coroner's office called it a homicide, but noted the victim had gunshot residue on both hands and may have pulled the trigger.
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