Today's the day

UNIVERSAL REMOTE

Phil Spector's six years in Los Angeles County's justice system, an odyssey that began with his arrest for shooting an actress in 2003 and included a grand jury presentation and two trials, will conclude this morning when he is sentenced to prison for murder.

... Since the conviction carries a mandatory 15 years to life in prison, the judge's only choice will be whether to tack on three, four or 10 additional years to the minimum sentence for the use of a firearm.

To know him is obviously not necessarily to love him.

UPDATE — The sentence is nineteen years. The originator of the Wall of Sound will now have other walls to contend with.