NJ judge refuses to throw out manslaughter case against former NBA star Williams
By APFriday, October 16, 2009
NJ judge won’t toss Jayson Williams case
SOMERVILLE, N.J. — A New Jersey judge has rejected attempts by attorneys for Jayson Williams to throw out the manslaughter case against the former NBA star.
Williams was convicted in 2004 of covering up the shooting of a hired driver, but he faces a retrial in January on a reckless manslaughter count.
State Superior Court Judge Edward Coleman ruled Friday that defense attorneys didn’t prove that racial bias and prosecutorial misconduct tainted the trial.
Members of the Hunterdon County prosecutor’s office testified this month at a hearing prompted by the disclosure two years ago that a county investigator used a racial slur to describe Williams, who is black.
The slur was not disclosed to the defense until more than three years after Williams’ conviction.
(This version CORRECTS the previous version, which was killed, to remove an erroneous reference to a manslaughter conviction.)
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October 20, 2009: 10:44 am
He should have know better than to try to pull something like that off. Nobody is immune to the law. |
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