FTA:The six-man, six-woman jury had begun deliberating on March 26 after a five-month court case which followed his first trial in 2007 that ended deadlocked with jurors unable to agree a unanimous verdict.

Prosecutors said Spector had shot dead former B-movie actress Lana Clarkson at his home in the early hours of February 3, 2003 after meeting her only a few hours before at the Hollywood nightclub where she worked.

Defense lawyers said that 40-year-old Clarkson, best-known for her role in Roger Corman's 1985 cult classic "The Barbarian Queen" but whose career had stalled at the time of her death, killed herself