Tag: Ronell Wilson
By Jeralyn, Section Death Penalty
Posted on Thu Jul 25, 2013 at 09:34:00 AM EST
Tags: Ronell Wilson, death penalty (all tags)
Posted on Thu Jul 25, 2013 at 09:34:00 AM EST
Tags: Ronell Wilson, death penalty (all tags)
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A federal jury in Brooklyn has sentenced Ronell Wilson to death for killing two undercover cops a decade ago. Wilson was previously convicted and sentenced to death, but the Second Circuit reversed the death sentence due to prosecutorial misconduct during closing arguments.
That sentence was overturned in 2010, when an appeals court ruled that prosecutors had unfairly tried to influence the jury in the case.
The court specifically faulted prosecutors for arguing that Wilson's claims of remorse should be discredited because he declined to plead guilty and refused to testify in his trial.
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