Seven days of deliberations and the 12 persons that will decide music producer Phil Spector’s fate are deadlocked, as they announced Tuesday.

The twelve jurors in the murder trial of rock and roll music producer Phil Spector have listened to long weeks of testimonies and arguments from both the defense team and the prosecution.

Seven days of deliberations have not proven enough for them decide to whether Spector, 67, is responsible or not for the death of Lana Clarkson, 40, more than four years ago.

The jury told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler that they were deadlocked. After four ballots, jurors were split 7 to 5, the foreman said, without specifying which way they were leaning, as he was previously instructed by the judge not to reveal the information.

Judge Fidler ruled two weeks ago that the jury would only have to alternatives: second-degree murder or acquittal. if convicted, Spector is facing 15 years to life behind bars.

The jury foreman told the judge the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the charges against Spector and indicated that there was disagreement over the facts in the case among jurors.

Judge Fidler sent the jury home and instructed them to return Wednesday. He said he would consider whether to allow the lawyers to reargue part of the case.

He also said he was considering allowing the panel to consider a lesser charge than second-degree murder. This is quite a change from the determination he showed in late August, before deliberations began, when he told attorneys he saw no reason for the jury to consider any lesser charges against Spector, such as voluntary or involuntary manslaughter.

“I have been thinking for weeks now of alternatives,” Fidler told attorneys during a hearing to finalize legal instructions for the jury in late August. “I don't see it.”

According to media reports, yesterday’s indication of accepting a lesser charge led legal experts to say Fidler would be risking appellate disapproval if a conviction was obtained after adding involuntary manslaughter as an option.

The prosecution contends that Phil Spector shot Lana Clarkson in an alcohol-induced rage after being sexually rejected. The prosecutors have portrayed him as a man with a pattern of consuming alcohol and then reacting violently when spurned by women.

Five women have testified, recounting similar experiences of being threatened with a gun.

Spector’s defense team has presented Lana Clarkson as a woman despondent over her failing acting career and ridden by financial woes. Their perspective has been that Clarkson accidentally shot herself.

Spector met Clarkson at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip, where she worked as a hostess. He invited her to his home. In the early hours of Feb. 3, 2003, she was found shot to death, through the mouth, in his house.

Lana Clarkson is best known for starring in the 1986 cult sci-fi movie “Barbarian Queen.”

Spector is well known in the music industry and has worked with major musicians; the Beatles, the Ronettes, Ike and Tina Turner and Sonny and Cher. Spector was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. He is famed for having created the “Wall of Sound” recording technique in the 1960s.