Phil Spector has filed another appeal for his murder conviction.
The 74-year-old music producer is serving a 19-year sentence for the second-degree murder of actress Lana Clarkson and his legal team have filed a motion asking for a review of his conviction after his health declined.
According to the 'River Deep, Mountain High' hitmaker's lawyer Charles Sevilla, Spector was recently rushed to hospital from his cell at California's Corcoran State Prison after taking a turn for the worse.
The lawyer told National Enquirer magazine: "He was taken to the hospital this week. In fact, he was rushed.
"It's bad. He's in frail health with a host of very serious problems."
Specific details of the songwriter's problems were not given, but the lawyer noted he has grown increasingly frail since being incarcerated in 2003.
He added: "They don't rush you to the hospital when you're in a prison hospital unless it's serious.
"He wasn't in the best of health going in and, needless to say, it hasn't gotten better over the years."
Clarkson died in Spector's California home in February 2003 by a gunshot in the mouth.
Defence lawyers insisted her death was a suicide, and the case was declared a mistrial in 2007, and the Spector - who pioneered the Wall of Sound production method - was eventually found guilty two years later.
He has previously had appeal attempts rejected.
The new appeal remains pending.

Ricky Gervais insists there's "no point" in getting married.
The 53-year-old comedian has been with his girlfriend Jane Fallon for more than 30 years but they have no intention of tying the knot because they don't "need" gifts for their home, and he joked he wouldn't want to be in a situation that required their families to meet.
He told 'The Late Show with David Letterman': "I don't think there's any point to us getting married. We don't want any more toasters, we never want our families to meet, that'd be terrible."
And Ricky also joked he and Jane never wanted children because they didn't want to have to share their wealth.
He joked: "Kids are spongers, they never give you anything back. They cost money, let's keep all our money.
"Let's get our money together and go across Mexico, throwing money out. You in the Mustang, me in the Volkswagen, just throwing money out! No one will have it!"
The 'Office' star recently admitted he doesn't worry about dying, but he is concerned about how he will pass away.
He said: "I don't even think about who people will think of me when I die. It's meaningless. And I don't worry about death, I only worry about how you die. My mum died of lung cancer and that's just about the worst thing you can have. It's a horrible way to go."

Jenni 'JWoww' Farley has claimed having a baby has "changed her life".
The former 'Jersey Shore' star and her fiancé Roger Mathews welcomed their daughter Meilani into the world on July 13, and she says things are better than ever.
Talking to InTouch Weekly magazine, the brunette beamed: "Having her really changed my life in the best possible way."
She also revealed that little Meilani - whose name means 'heavenly flower' in Hawaiian - is very well behaved, which is a good thing since the new parents are doing everything without the aid of nannies.
Jenni shared: "Meilani is the most perfect baby. We don't have any help, so we're learning as we go."
Roger even explained that he is happy to deal with dirty nappies and helps his wife-to-be out with the night feeds.
He said: "I do diapers and get up with Jenni as much as I can at night. I think it's only fair. My family is my priority."
Jwoww added: "[I've] never been more content."
The parents are clearly in love with their little bundle of joy. Two days after Meilani was born,
Jenni posted a heartfelt picture of a quote, "Your first breath took ours away" on her site JenniFarley.com with the caption: "Mommy and daddy haven't slept because we can't stop staring at our baby, Meilani! I don't ever want to put her down to use my phone! Lol (sic)"

Britain's Queen Elizabeth does not eat shellfish and her husband Prince Philip enjoys a beer with his lunch. The revelation was made as the Club des Chefs, which is made up of those who cook for heads of state and political leaders, met in London this...

One Direction will headline this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival.
The boyband will be joined by acts including Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, Iggy Azalea, and Lorde, on the main stage at the annual event which will take place over two nights at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on September 19 and 20.
Coldplay, Usher, Nicki Minaj, Motley Crue, Zac Brown Band, Paramore, Train, Eric Church, Calvin Harris, Bastille, and Steve Aoki have also been confirmed to play at the star-studded gathering.
Ryan Seacrest will once again return as host for the music festival's fourth year in Las Vegas.
Tom Poleman, president of Clear Channel's national programming platforms, told Billboard: "We want to continue to deliver the goods for artists and help their development, and to see more great music to keep the radio industry healthy."
He added: "It's great to have the diversity of genres this year, too. We have Motley Crue, which is obviously very different from Train, Eric Church, or Ariana Grande, but that's what makes it so special.
"You'll often have people on the side of the stage watching other bands. It's not unthinkable to see someone like Coldplay watching Zac Brown or One Direction because they're already on-set and they never get to see them play themselves."

Chrissie Hynde has compared rock legend Neil Young to God.
Neil appears on the track 'Down The Wrong Way' on Chrissie's new album, 'Stockholm' and the former Pretenders singer was honoured to work with the Canadian musician.
She told the Daily Telegraph: "If you believe in God, playing with Neil is probably the closest thing you'll have to being in the presence. A demi-God, let's say.
"As far as an individual, he's the hippy you always imagined him to be, funny, personable, real easy-going.
"He's like the guy who passes you the joint in the back of a station wagon as you're travelling across some dusty terrain."
Meanwhile, Chrissie insisted that song-writing performs a cathartic function for her.
She said: "I am not a poet, I am not a storyteller. I just kind of get stuff off my chest. These songs just tumbled out."
Chrissie admitted that the central theme running through the new album - which has been described as edgy by various critics - is emotional concerns.
She added: "That's why there's millions of love songs made out of just 12 notes. It's a Rubik's Cube times a thousand, there's so many possible combinations of primary colours."

Former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has had his jail term appeal refused.
The shamed star was jailed for 29 years last December, with another six years on license, after being found guilty of a number of child sex offences, and after claiming that his sentence was "too harsh", judges at Cardiff Crown Court have now decided he didn't have sufficient grounds to appeal, Sky News reports.
The singer had originally insisted he was innocent of offences including the attempted rape of an 11-month-old child, possession of child-abuse videos - some of which he made himself - and encouraging a fan to abuse her own child.
However, he changed his plea at the last minute, averting the need for a trial, and later complained he hadn't realised his guilty plea would indeed make him "look guilty".
At his original trial, the judge told him: "I am satisfied that you are a deeply corrupting influence, you are highly manipulative, you are a sexual predator, you are dangerous.
"The public and, in particular, young females need protection from you."
Watkins was told that he would have to serve at least two-thirds of his custodial sentence before he could even be considered for release by the Parole board.
His barrister insisted her client wasn't given enough discount for pleading guilty, saying: "This case causes a very disturbing reaction for anyone who has anything to do with it ... But by pleading guilty my client averted the need for a most distressing and unpleasant trial for all those concerned, especially a jury.
"I am not trying to minimise the gravity of these offenses, just simply make the observation that a sense of proportion needs to be maintained."

Jennifer Saunders is planning a star-studded cast for the 'Absolutely Fabulous' movie.
The 56-year-old comedienne is working on a film spin-off of her classic sitcom and she has revealed she wants every guest star that's been in the show - including Kate Moss and Emma Bunton - to reprise their roles.
She said: "I haven't got the storyline completely sorted out yet, but I want to cast everyone who has ever been in the show in it."
The hit sitcom starred Jennifer and Joanna Lumley as boozy fashion industry insiders Edina 'Eddy' Monsoon and Patsy Stone.
The comic confirmed the main cast, also consisting of Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks, would return for the movie.
She told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: "I guess if your name begins with J, you're in. Joanna, Jennifer, Jane, June, Julia - we're all J's."
Other guests who appeared on the show - which aired 39 episodes between 1992 and 2012 - include supermodel Naomi Campbell, Helena Bonham Carter, Idris Elba, Sir Elton John and Jennifer's long-time comedy partner Dawn French.
Jennifer confirmed the movie earlier this year, saying: "I am writing the film as we speak - it's in the pipeline.
"I am hoping it will be released by the end of next year."

Kerry Washington takes risks "all the time" on 'Scandal'.
The Emmy Award-nominated starlet says her role as political fixer Olivia Pope is enormously challenging to her as an actress as the character - who is having an affair with the president of the United States - is "flawed" and has many different shades to her.
Kerry explained: "Olivia is such a revered character - we want to see her as all-powerful and all-knowing and yet she's enormously flawed. Taking a hero and revealing her dark side - her flaws and humanity - is an exciting creative risk for me."
The 37-year-old actress feels there are very few complex roles available for women and says it's "exciting" to play a character that is different.
She added: "I think we feel underrepresented in different forms of media, or as people of colour - there's a longing for those characters to be perfect. To say, 'No, I'm not supposed to be an upstanding citizen for all women or a role model for all people of colour. I'm going to be a human being: three dimensional, messy and alive - both powerful and a little bit of a mess.' Now that's exciting."
Kerry recently earned her second Emmy nomination for playing Olivia but she admits she doesn't get "caught up" in awards hysteria.
She told Stylist magazine: "I love what I do and being able to do it is the most important thing to me."
'Scandal' Season 3 starts on July 31 at 9pm on Sky Living.

Cheryl Cole will be known as Cheryl Fernandez-Versini on 'The X Factor'.
Voice artist Peter Dickson - who announces the judges and contestants to the stage on the live shows - has confirmed bosses have asked him to begin practicing Cheryl's new name following her secret wedding to French restaurateur Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini earlier this month.
Appearing on the Capital FM's Capital Breakfast show this morning (23.07.14), he said: "I had a phone call a few weeks ago from the producers to tell me who the new judges were.
"They said, 'It's Cheryl', and I said, 'Oh, that's fine, she's back.' And they said, 'No, but she's changed her name. She's married Jean-Bernard and she wants to be known by his second name, so can you start practicing?' So I have been - not very successfully!"
Cheryl, 31, wed Jean-Bernard in Mustique in front of just four guests and it was recently reported she may be whisked off to her new husband's native France to film the Judges' Houses round of this year's 'X Factor'.
The singer is tipped to go to Nice in the south of France, where Jean-Bernard hails from, while new judge Mel B may film in Cancun, Mexico.

Peter Webber is planning a sequel to 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'.
The director - who launched actress Scarlett Johansson into the spotlight with his 2003 debut - has now begun work on a new project.
The similarly art themed movie will be based on an early 19th century painting and is working under the title, 'Medusa.'.
Speaking at a film festival in Ukraine, Webber said he was planning to catch up with his work after taking a break from feature films for several years.
He told The Hollywood Reporter: "I am hoping to catch up and line up some projects and bang out a few films in a row to make up for some of the down times over the last ten years."
However, the director wouldn't confirm which painting will be getting his film treatment, but did hint that it's famous enough for art geeks to guess.
He said: "Anyone who knows their art history will be able to guess which painting the film is about."
Raphaelle De Laurentiis, the daughter of 'Hannibal Rising' producer Dino De Laurentiis, is set to produce the film alongside Peter.

Dwayne Johnson wore a beard made of testicle hair for 'Hercules'.
The 42-year-old star - also known by his wrestling name "The Rock" - stars as the Greek hero in the upcoming film of the same name and he's confessed he was shocked to find out what parts of his costume had been made out of.
Speaking on 'Live! with Kelly and Michael', he said: "The beard hair, I've got to mention this, this is crazy. The beard wasn't lace so it had to be put on strips cut in tri, quarter inch wide, piece-by-piece.
"So I asked my Italian designer, 'Matteo what is this?' And he goes, 'Oh, it's the hair from a yak'. It's very expensive and very fine hair and I said, 'Yak?' And he says, 'Yes, yak'. And he's putting it on my face like this [rubs the area around his mouth] and I say, 'What part?' And he goes, 'The testicles'.
"It's the commitment of which I will go to."
The 'Pain & Gain' actor - whose usual hairstyle is that of a shaved head - has long flowing locks in the movie and he's revealed it took nearly four hours to put the wig on every day on set.
He explained: "It's a system, it's a process, it's an experience. Everyday for five months. Every day, three and a half hours, every day.
"Three and a half hours every morning. So I would get up at half three and then I would eat and train again, as I had to train twice a day for the role, and then I would go and sit in hair and make up for three and a half hours for the transformation."