By NATE RAWLINGS In the first three days of grueling and at times gut-wrenching testimony, prosecutors presented witnesses, transcripts, tapes, and documents that prove Jose Sucuzhanay died after an altercation with Keith Phoenix and Hakim Scott. The biggest question they sought to answer on day four was what killed him-the bottle or the bat? Dr. Michael Greenberg...
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April 23, 2010April 29, 2010Brooklyn Life, Crime
Hate Crime Trial: A Brother’s Testimony, and Stare
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...
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April 22, 2010April 23, 2010Brooklyn Life, Crime
View From the Passenger Seat, A Cousin Testifies
Demetrius Nathaniel walked slowly into the courtroom, looking directly ahead as he took the witness stand to testify against his cousin, Keith Phoenix.
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April 21, 2010April 22, 2010Brooklyn Life, Crime
Hate Crime Trial Opens: Nothing Good Happens At 3:00 a.m. With Bellies Full Of Booze
Thirty-six jurors, four attorneys, court officers, relatives, and the two defendants waited as Davi Almonte slowly entered the witness box.
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April 16, 2010April 23, 2010Brooklyn Life, Crime
Queens Imam Sentenced: Deportation Instead of Prison
By Nate Rawlings For the next 90 days, Imam Ahmed Afzali will be wearing a monitor on his ankle, connected to police from the parole division. By the 91st day, he will either be in jail, or on a plane out of the United States, never to return. Afzali entered the Federal courtroom yesterday dressed...
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March 26, 2010March 26, 2010Crime
The Re-Cross
By Nate Rawlings The name in question was Christie. Depending on the theory, she was either a culprit, or a naive employee in the middle of an alleged fraud, and lawyers couldn’t even agree on her real name. So it went today in the unfolding legal drama of the People of New York v. Ronald...
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March 26, 2010April 2, 2010Brooklyn Life, Crime
Midwood Murder Still A Mystery
by Matthew Huisman Gavin Torres never made it home from his first day of work. Walking home Tuesday night from work at Pomegranate, a grocery store on Coney Island Avenue, the 19-year-old was gunned down less than a block away from his home on Avenue J. His family and friends are trying to figure out...
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March 11, 2010March 11, 2010Brooklyn Life, Crime
Man gets 18 years for allowing 3-year-old’s murder
By Nate Rawlings The man convicted of not intervening while his girlfriend beat a 3-year-old to death with a pool cue was sentenced in Brooklyn Supreme Court today to 18 years to life in prison. Lemar Martin, a former city housing guard, who was convicted of second-degree murder on Jan. 27, was sentenced by Justice...
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March 5, 2010March 11, 2010Brooklyn Life, Crime
After the Fire: The Long Journey Home
Luisa left the funeral home last Thursday on a Friday flight out of John F. Kennedy
Airport to her home country, Guatemala
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March 1, 2010March 9, 2010Brooklyn Life, Crime
The Man with the Machete
By Danielle Bengsch On Sunday night at around 11 p.m., according to police reports, Samuel Forrese opened the door to his East Flatbush apartment with a machete in hand. After he did not let go of the machete, despite orders to do so, the police employed a Taser. When Forrese still did not drop the...