The personal assistant to former Ramones manager Linda Stein has been convicted in a New York court of bludgeoning her boss to death.

雷蒙斯乐队前经纪人琳达·斯坦的私人助理涉嫌使用棍棒将其上司殴打致死，日前她已在纽约某法庭被定罪。

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Stein co-managed The Ramones during their 1970s heyday

Prosecutors² said Natavia Lowery, 28, stole more than $30,000 (£19,500) from Stein, then clubbed（用棍棒打，募集） her with a piece of exercise equipment to try and hide it.

Jurors（陪审员） spent less than a day reaching a second-degree murder verdict（裁定，结论） .

Stein was found dead at her Manhattan apartment on 30 October 2007 having died from blows to the head and neck.

Although Lowery's lawyers acknowledged she stole from Stein and at least one previous employer, they denied she killed her.

They argued in their closing statements that police plied³ their client into a false confession⁴ after 12 hours of questioning.

Lowery had initially⁵ denied any knowledge of the killing⁶, blaming it on a masked stranger who told her not to report it.

She eventually gave a videotaped account of beating Stein to death after her employer badgered her about the pace of her work and blew cannabis（印度大麻） smoke in her face.

Authorities later determined⁷ there was no cannabis in Stein's body when she died, and she suffered far more than the roughly six blows Lowery described.

Surveillance videotape also showed the personal assistant leaving Stein's building soon after the estimated time of the killing.

Stein managed The Ramones along with Danny Fields during the band's heyday（全盛期） .

The ex-wife of Sire Records head Seymour Stein, she went into property after parting company with the band in 1980.

Dubbed⁸ a "broker⁹ to the stars", Stein's clients included Madonna, Sting, Steven Spielberg and Angelina Jolie.