Universal Ramblings

· Phil Spector gets 19 years to life for murder of actress. Music producer Phil Spector was sentenced Friday to the maximum sentence of 19 years to life for the murder six years ago of actress Lana Clarkson.

· Phil Spector faces sentencing in murder of actress. Phil Spector faces sentencing Friday on second-degree murder of actress Lana Clarkson, a conviction that suggests to some that California prosecutors have broken a decades-long string of celebrity murder case losses. The names O.J. Simpson and Robert Blake come to mind.

· Phil Spector is convicted of 2nd-degree murder. Legendary music producer Phil Spector has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of an actress at his home in Alhambra, California. The six men and six women began their deliberations on March 26. Spector now faces 15 years to life in prison.

· Prosecutor calls Phil Spector ‘demonic maniac.’ A prosecutor told a jury that Phil Spector’s history of violence against women was like a game of Russian roulette that ended with the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson at his hilltop mansion.

· LA jury can consider lesser charge in Spector case. Jurors in Phil Spector’s retrial can consider the lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter instead of second-degree murder in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson, a judge ruled Friday.