Author: Amanda Massa (Amanda Massa)

By Jeannette Neumann Hakim Scott had been riding in the backseat of his friend’s car the night that an Ecuadorian immigrant was brutally beaten just feet from the red Mercury Mountaineer. On Wednesday, attorney Craig Newman told a Brooklyn jury that Scott also took a backseat in the killing of Jose Sucuzhanay on the night...

By Amanda Massa Romel Sucuzhanay had been on the witness stand for half an hour, looking as if he wished he were anyplace else. He looked off into the middle distance, and at the interpreter who was translating his testimony from Spanish to English. And then he looked at the defendants’ table where men accused...