Phil Spector appeal thrown out

Phil Spector may have just used up his last chance of ever seeing freedom again. The United States Supreme Court has declined to review his murder conviction in the case of the killing of actress Lana Clarkson.

Spector's lawyers had been working their way through the state and federal courts in an attempt to have the murder conviction overturned. Their main argument has been that Spector's constitutional due process was violated when the prosecutors used comments by the trial judge about an expert's testimony to try and say that the judge had become a witness for the prosecution.

Spector was convicted of killing Clarkson in 2003 while she visited his Los Angeles home. His first trial ended in a hung jury but the second ended in a conviction.