Spector Jury Finds Him Guilty

Breaking news: A jury finds Phil Spector guilty of second degree murder in his second trial. His first trial ended in a hung jury (10-2 to convict) back in 2007.

Second Degree murder from FindLaw is defined as:

1) an intentional killing that is not premeditated or planned, nor committed in a reasonable “heat of passion” or 2) a killing caused by dangerous conduct and the offender’s obvious lack of concern for human life. Second-degree murder may best be viewed as the middle ground between first-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter.

You can read my thoughts on Phil Spector, written during the first jury deliberation here.

Dateline NBC said in September of 2007, “…no Hollywood jury has ever found a major celebrity guilty of murder.”

Well, folks, I guess that has finally changed!

Thanks, Nancy, for the breaking news.