WHO IS PHIL SPECTOR PROSECUTOR ALAN JACKSON?

Last week, we profiled music producer Phil Spector’s defense attorney Doron Weinberg. Now it’s lead prosecutor Alan Jackson’s turn.

According to the State Bar of California website, Alan Jay Jackson, State Bar 173647, was admitted to practice on December 12, 1994---14 years ago.

Jackson received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas, and his law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California.

After attending high school, He spent four years as an enlisted airman, attaining the rank of E4.

After a short stint in a Southern California civil litigation firm, Jackson was offered his dream job of prosecutor with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office—in 1995 at the time of the OJ Simpson murder trial.

Although Jackson started in a misdemeanor department, later in the 1990’s Jackson was assigned to the Hardcore Gang Division of the LADA's office, prosecuting gang members. His cases were almost exclusively murder cases during this time.

As a member of the Major Crimes Division of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office where Alan Jackson is currently assigned, Jackson is responsible for handling high-profile and complex cases.

Before taking on the Phillip Spector murder case, Jackson won a conviction in a 19 year old case involving the murder for hire of a famous race car driver and his wife by a former business partner.

In addition, Alan Jackson is now in the middle of a retrial of the Phil Spector case, a case that he handled as lead prosecutor for five months before the jury deadlocked, necessitating a retrial. As such, Alan Jackson has been living and breathing the Phil Spector case for three years.

LA Times reporter Peter Hong who covered the Spector trial said this about Jackson:

"He was portrayed as a young up-and-comer in the prosecutorial community, but I tried not to characterize him as such because, in reality, he is an experienced, seasoned prosecutor."

That experience and seasoning shows in the courtroom—as does Jackson’s charismatic personality and self confidence as a trial lawyer.