In pictures: Phil Spector

Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler presided over sentencing. Phil Spector was given 19 years to life in prison for the second-degree murder of actress Lana Clarkson. Spector showed no emotion as Fidler ordered a term of 15 years to life for second-degree murder plus four years for personal use of a gun.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Donna Clarkson, mother of actress Lana Clarkson, made a brief statement in court Friday before sentencing. “I’m very proud of Lana, proud to be her mother,” she said, adding: “No one should suffer the loss of a child.”  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Music producer Phil Spector, center, and his attorney Dennis Riordan appear in a courtroom for Spector’s sentencing in Los Angeles.   (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

At the April conclusion of a six-month trial, Phil Spector looks on as jurors enter the courtroom before the verdict was read in Superior Court. The music producer was found guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson in 2003 at Spector’s Alhambra mansion.

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Music producer Phil Spector and his wife, Rachelle, arrive at the downtown criminal courts building Monday. The jury reached its guilty verdict after nine days of deliberations.The decision means Spector, 69, faces at least 18 years in prison when he is sentenced.

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Spector’s lawyer asked the judge to allow his client to remain free on bail until sentencing. The prosecution objected, citing Spector’s long history of “drawing guns” on people. Judge Larry Paul Fidler rejected the request and ordered that Spector be taken into custody immediately.

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Donna Clarkson, the mother of shooting victim Lana Clarkson, hugs attorney Alan Jackson after a news conference on the conviction of Phil Spector.

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Phil Spector is flanked by Tina Turner and Ahmet Ertegun at the fourth annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Awards in New York City, January 1989.

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Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector, behind rose-colored aviator glasses, in Los Angeles, 1989.

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Phil Spector arrives at the High Court in London in 1997 for the second day of a case in which Bourne Music Ltd. claimed a breach of copyright. The dispute over ownership of the song “To Know Him Is To Love Him” was resolved in Spector’s favor.

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Phil Spector and Sheryl Crow, Washington, D.C., December 2000.

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Phil Spector leaves the Alhambra police station after his arrest for the shooting of Lana Clarkson on Feb. 3, 2003.

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Accompanied by bodyguards, Phil Spector arrives for his arraignment on murder charges at the Alhambra courthouse on Nov. 20, 2003.

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Phil Spector leaves court with his then attorney Robert Shapiro, right, after his arraignment on murder charges, Nov. 20, 2003. The man on the left is unidentified.

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Music producer Phil Spector, on trial for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, in a previous court appearance, May 7, 2004 in Alhambra.

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Phil Spector appears in Los Angeles County Superior Court, May 2005.

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Phil Spector is escorted from court by his fiancée Rachelle Marie Short and a bodyguard.

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Accompanied by his wife Rachelle and a bodyguard, Phil Spector arrives at Los Angeles Superior Court for day two of jury selection in his murder trial, March 20, 2007.

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A wan Phil Spector, his attorney Roger Rosen, right, and his wife Rachelle take a break from jury selection at Los Angeles Superior Court, March 19, 2007.

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