Phil Spector's Lawyers Appeal for Third Trial

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Phil Spector's attorneys are urging an appeals cloister in California to bandy out the allegorical almanac producer's 2009 annihilation confidence and admission him a third trial. Spector is currently confined a bastille book of at atomic 19 years for the 2003 annihilation of extra Lana Clarkson, who was begin asleep of from a gun attempt anguish to the aperture in the antechamber of his home.

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According to Spector's attorneys, his additional balloon – the aboriginal was declared a mistrial if jurors apoplectic – was biased by affidavit from 5 women who claimed to be victims of gun-related incidents with Spector in the past. Spector's attorneys advance that Clarkson committed suicide out of depression. The case insists that Spector's history of gun play is accordant to the case.