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By Harriet Ryan

There will not be a verdict this week in the Phil Spector murder retrial, thanks to a nasty case of the flu.

A Superior Court judge canceled deliberations for the rest of the week after a male juror who became ill Wednesday was not well enough to proceed. In the week since lawyers finished closing arguments, the panel has spent just one full day and two half-days discussing the case because of the illness and two court holidays.

Spector, 69, is accused of murder in the shooting of actress Lana Clarkson, 40, in his Alhambra home six years ago.

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-- Harriet Ryan

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Harriet Ryan

Harriet Ryan is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the paper in 2008, she has written about high-profile people, including Phil Spector, Michael Jackson and Tom Girardi, and institutions, including USC, the State Bar of California, the Catholic Church, the Kabbalah Centre and Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin. Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with colleagues Matt Hamilton and Paul Pringle in 2019. She and Hamilton won the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability in 2023. She previously worked at Court TV and the Asbury Park Press. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

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