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NEW YORK:
A US choose overturned Friday the homicide conviction of 1 man within the killing of hip-hop legend Jam Grasp Jay after a choose discovered prosecutors didn’t show intent.
Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan Jr, the alleged shooter, had been discovered responsible on all counts in February 2024, convicted of homicide whereas engaged in narcotics trafficking and firearms-related homicide of the artist whose actual title was Jason Mizell.
However on Friday, choose LaShann DeArcy Corridor wrote that “Defendant Jordan’s movement for a judgment of acquittal is GRANTED,” whereas denying Washington’s authorized bid to overturn his conviction within the case.
Jordan had not but been sentenced for the homicide and remained in jail on drug costs unrelated to the 2002 dying of Mizell.
“Within the absence of adequate proof of any motive — right here, a drug-related motive — the cost can’t be sustained. Jordan argues that the Authorities did not…adduce proof adequate to assist the conclusion that Jordan had a drug-related motive to kill Mizell. The Court docket agrees,” DeArcy Corridor wrote in a 29-page order.
A spokesman for the prosecutors who introduced the case stated “the choice is being reviewed.”
Prosecutors introduced a case of a drug deal gone flawed, saying that Washington and Jordan, who each knew Mizell, killed the well-known artist as revenge for reducing them out of a cocaine deal.
Run-DMC’s Jam Grasp Jay, one of many founding members of the Nineteen Eighties rap group, was shot and killed by two gunmen inside his studio in Queens, New York in 2002.
The 37-year-old, record-scratching member of the platinum-selling rap group, was shot within the head, whereas one other man was wounded by the gunmen.
The homicide adopted a collection of tragedies within the hip-hop group, together with the violent deaths of rapper Tupac Shakur and The Infamous BIG within the Nineties.
Run-DMC’s 1985 launch “Elevating Hell” grew to become the primary rap album to go platinum, and “Stroll This Method,” a collaboration with Aerosmith’s Steve Tyler, made the highest of the charts. AFP
