A judge has vacated the sentence of Maleek Jones, who was convicted of a murder in Connecticut nearly 30 years ago. Jones said, and a judge agreed, his trial lawyer was ineffective and that he did not receive a fair trial.
Jones has consistently maintained he did not commit the 1992 murder that resulted in his 65-year sentence. He has fought the conviction through the courts for three decades.
Citing the 229 people who’ve died of drug overdoses in New Britain since 2015, a federal judge on Thursday sentenced the former co-owner of a Corbin Avenue bodega to four years in prison for selling oxycodone pills to customers. Raul Cabrera-Vasquez used Elzier Grocery as a front for a busy drug market, prosecutors said. Noting that Cabrera, 50, had kept a spotless record until his arrest .
Warning that he’s at a crossroads in his life, a federal judge sentenced Elkie Crump to a little more than four years in prison for his fourth conviction for dealing drugs in central Connecticut.
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