Spector visits jury selection with new hairstyle · 2007-03-20 15:55
The music producer’s murder trial opened Monday with jury selection.
Phil Spector stands accused of fatally shooting B-movie actor Lana Clarkson in his castle-style Alhambra, California, home in 2003. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison, E Online web site informed.
Spector, 67, is currently free on $1 million bail. He has pleaded innocent and in a 2003 magazine interview said Clarkson shot herself.
Spector arrived at the Los Angeles courthouse with a new soft, honey-hued hairdo.
According to reports, the 67-year-old Spector appeared in a fine mood Monday, smiling as he made his way to the courtroom. He was said to be accompanied by his second wife, Rachelle Short, whom he wed last year.
In the morning, 75 potential jury-box occupants were brought before Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler, reports said.
Fidler assured the assembled that while the trial will be televised, the jurors won’t be. He also promised that they won’t be sequestered during the trial’s expected three-month-long run.
Opening arguments are tentatively scheduled for Apr. 30, also likely the first day of gavel-to-gavel TV coverage.
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