A request put in by the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s office to rehear the case of a double-cop killer was rejected by a federal appellate court on Tuesday, the New York Daily News reports.
Ronell Wilson was sentenced to death by lethal injection in 2006, after he was found guilty of the 2003 murders of two NYPD undercover detectives, James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews. An appellate panel repealed the sentence in June, ruling that prosecutors denied Wilson of a fair trial.
A spokesman for the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s office told Jeff Harrell of SILive.com that “our office is considering its options” and that they have 90 days to take the case to the Supreme Court. Beverly Van Ness, the attorney for Wilson, told the site that a retrial of the death penalty phase would be “traumatic and costly” and that she hopes it will end with Wilson receiving life in prison without the possibility of release.
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