Wednesday, June 30, 2010

News Alert: Appeals Court Overturns Death Sentence for Killer of 2 N.Y.P.D. Officers

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Wed, June 30, 2010 -- 1:07 PM ET
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Appeals Court Overturns Death Sentence for Killer of Two N.Y.P.D. Officers in 2003

A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that Ronell
Wilson, convicted of killing two undercover police detectives
on Staten Island in 2003, must be resentenced because of
legal errors by the prosecutor and judge during his trial,
the Associated Press reported. When he was sentenced in 2007,
Mr. Wilson became the first federal defendant to receive the
death penalty in New York City in more than five decades.

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