4月14日10時54分配信 毎日新聞
【ロサンゼルス吉富裕倫】米音楽プロデューサー、フィル・スペクター被告（６８）が０３年２月、自宅で女優（当時４０歳）を射殺したとして殺人罪に問われた事件で、米ロサンゼルス郡地裁の陪審は１３日、故意のない第２級殺人罪でスペクター被告に有罪の評決を出した。弁護側は控訴する意向。
同地裁の陪審は０７年秋、女優の自殺を主張するスペクター被告に対し有罪と無罪が１０対２で全員一致の評決に達せず審理無効となった。その後検察の申し立てを受け２度目の審理が開かれていた。
来月２９日の判決で禁固１５年以上、最高で終身刑の判決が言い渡される見込み。
スペクター被告はビートルズ最後のアルバム「レット・イット・ビー」のプロデュースなどで知られる。
ビートルズなど手掛けたプロデューサー、殺人で有罪に
2009年4月14日（火）11:24
［ロサンゼルス １３日 ロイター］ ロサンゼルス郡地裁の陪審団は１３日、ビートルズなどの作品を手掛けた米音楽プロデューサーのフィル・スペクター被告（６９）に対し、第２級殺人で有罪評決を下した。判決公判は５月２９日の予定で、禁固１８年が言い渡される可能性がある。
スペクター被告は２００３年２月、ロサンゼルス郊外の自宅で女優のラナ・クラークソンさん（当時４０）を銃で撃って殺害した罪で起訴されたが、公判ではクラークソンさんの自殺だったなどと、犯行を否認していた。
スペクター被告は１９６０年代から音楽プロデューサーとして活躍し始め、ビートルズのほか、ザ・ロネッツやライチャス・ブラザーズなどのヒット作品を手掛けた。
大物プロデューサーに有罪評決＝６年前の女優殺害－米ロス
2009年4月14日（火）10:30
【ロサンゼルス１３日時事】ロサンゼルス郡地裁の陪審団は１３日、米国の大物音楽プロデューサー、フィル・スペクター被告（６９）に対し、第２級殺人などで有罪評決を下した。判決は５月２９日に予定され、ロイター通信によると、最高で終身刑の可能性がある。
同被告は２００３年２月、ロス市内の被告の自宅で女優ラナ・クラークソンさん＝当時（４０）＝の顔を銃で撃ち、殺害したとして起訴されたが、裁判では「人気低迷を苦に自殺した」と一貫して犯行を否認していた。同被告はビートルズの大ヒットアルバム「レット・イット・ビー」やジョン・レノン、ザ・ロネッツの作品などを担当、ロックの殿堂入りも果たしている。
米有名音楽家に有罪評決 ０３年の女優射殺事件
2009年4月14日（火）12:39
【ロサンゼルス１３日共同】ビートルズのアルバム「レット・イット・ビー」などを手掛けた有名音楽プロデューサーで、女優を射殺したとして第２級殺人罪に問われたフィル・スペクター被告（６９）に、米ロサンゼルス郡地裁陪審は１３日、有罪評決を下した。被告は０３年、知り合ったばかりの女優ラナ・クラークソンさんをロサンゼルスの自宅に招いた後、トラブルになり銃で射殺したとして逮捕された。
The New York Times
Phil Spector Found Guilty of Killing Actress
By SOLOMON MOORE and RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Published: April 13, 2009 LOS ANGELES
Phil Spector, the rock music impresario behind hits like “Da Doo Ron Ron,” and
“You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling,” was convicted Monday of murdering a
struggling actress at his mansion in 2003 after a night of drinking.
Mr. Spector, 68, faces at least 18 years in prison. The jury, ending a five-month
trial, reached its decision after 27 hours of deliberating whether he shot the woman
in a fit of anger or, as his lawyers argued, merely witnessed her suicide.
In addition to second-degree murder, the jury found Mr. Spector guilty of illegally
discharging a firearm.
This was the second murder trial in the case; the first ended in a hung jury in
2007. Mr. Spector has been out on bail for most of the last six years, but was
immediately taken into custody after the verdict on Monday.
Mr. Spector came into court looking frail and sullen. He wore a long blue overcoat,
a bright red tie, and a shaggy shoulder-length hairstyle. Gone were his psychedelic
glasses and the swagger that carried him through decades at the top of the pop music
scene.
Mr. Spector whispered only a few words to his lawyers. As a court clerk read the
verdict, he leaned forward intently. His face betrayed little emotion throughout the
proceeding.
The family of the actress, Lana Clarkson, who was 40, reacted with relief and
embraces. They declined to speak to reporters gathered at the Los Angeles Superior
Court downtown.
Mr. Spector, who was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, was famous
for his Wall of Sound, lush orchestrations heard on an array of hits in the 1960s
and 1970s with groups like the Ronettes. He worked with the Beatles, Tina Turner,
the Rolling Stones and others but had receded from the public stage and in recent
years was known as much for his eccentric behavior ? he has been often photographed
wearing a large fright wig ? as for his talent as a producer.
And according to at least five women who testified in court, Mr. Spector also had a
frightening penchant for firearms and drunken discourses ? often mixing them.
On Feb. 3, 2003, Ms. Clarkson’s body was found in the foyer of Mr. Spector’s
eccentric, castle-style mansion in Alhambra, a Los Angeles suburb. She had been shot
in the mouth. Prosecutors said Mr. Spector had tried to clean up the murder scene.
Defense lawyers argued that Ms. Clarkson’s Hollywood ambitions had been frustrated,
that she had been suicidal and that she had turned the gun on herself.
The previous trial ended in September 2007, when a jury deadlocked 10 to 2 in favor
of conviction.
The verdict was a victory for Los Angeles prosecutors who have endured high-profile
defeats in celebrity murder trials, including the acquittals of O. J. Simpson and
the actor Robert Blake.
Alan Jackson, a deputy district attorney who rose to national prominence as the
Spector case played out on Court TV, now truTV, was the prosecutor in both trials.
Just as in the Simpson case, the Clarkson family is pursuing a wrongful-death civil
suit against Mr. Spector, which has been pending while the criminal case proceeded.
Ms. Clarkson starred in a 1985 cult hit, “Barbarian Queen,” and had a bit part in
“Fast Times at Ridgemont High” in 1982.
She was working as a hostess at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip when Mr.
Spector visited, struck up a conversation and took her out drinking.
They finished the night at his mansion, known as the Castle, but, when she spurned
his advances and tried to leave, he shoved a gun in her mouth and pulled the
trigger, prosecutors said.
The prosecutors argued that this fit a pattern of Mr. Spector’s drinking and
threatening women with guns over decades.
“I want to acknowledge the many women who testified and presented a picture of Phil
Spector,” said Steve Cooley, the Los Angeles County district attorney, after the
verdict.
Mr. Spector, prosecutors said, essentially confessed when he emerged from the home,
gun in hand, and told his limousine driver, “I think I killed somebody.”
The defense disputed the accusations on several fronts, including the account of the
limousine driver, Adriano De Souza.
They noted that Mr. De Souza was a Brazilian immigrant not fully proficient in
English and said he might have misquoted Mr. Spector, who they suggested might have
actually been telling him to “call somebody.” A gurgling fountain nearby and the
driver’s fatigue and hunger from working all night may have added to confusion,
they told jurors.
Mr. Cooley said Monday that he had no idea how much money the county had spent to
convict Mr. Spector.
“We just get the job done,” Mr. Cooley said. “We don’t really keep track of
that.”
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