Spector murder retrial opens

A prosecutor in the murder retrial of Phil Spector portrayed the producer as a musical genius who repeatedly threatened women with guns and could become “very sinister, very violent and very deadly” when he was drunk.

Prosecutor Alan Jackson’s comments came during his opening statement in Spector’s retrial in the 2003 death of actress Lana Clarkson. Prosecutors claim Spector shot her after she resisted his sexual advances.