Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announced Wednesday that an Amherst man was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his role in a July 2021 drive-by shooting.
witnesses. the hotel clerk and the pizzeria owner confessed and agreed to testify for the prosecution. the pizzeria owner turned getaway driver told the jury that patrizia met him to make sure he went through with the murder plot. he said i m worried because what if they catch me? and that s when patrizia said don t worry about that, i will give you enough money for you, your children, your children s children, and if they catch you i will pay for yourself with gold. that s when he decided to go forward with? that that s when he decided with him to do it. there it was, patrizia s direct connection to the murder plot. but don t take the pizzeria owner s words for it, the prosecutor told the jury. take patrizia reggiani s. she had incriminated herself by keeping a detailed record of her thoughts in of all things a cartier diary. one of the things she wrote in her diary is a sentence that
from an american courtroom especially during murder trials. one of them is. this the cage? the cage. this is where defendants in the trial watch the trial. in this particular case it was the accuse killer in the accused getaway driver. there s maybe a difference that something that s missing. the jury, where do they? set during murder trials in italy, there are two jurors at six jurors and they decide together. as equals. as equals. that s so interesting. after a two-year investigation into maurizio gucci s murder, prosecutor nocerino was about to try the case of a lifetime. this was the trial of the century in me. len nocerino came to court armed with wiretap at recordings and surveillance footage. he also had a slew of star witnesses including almost all of patrizia s alleged
the names: brian wells, the pizza delivery man who d been blown up. and kelly said marjorie told her that wells was no innocent victim but rather part of the conspiracy. that is, if you can believe a snitch. as for the others, ken barnes, of course, was the crack dealer who was marjorie s fishing buddy. floyd stockton was rothstein s old friend, and was living in rothstein s house at the time of the bombing. marjorie said jim roden, her boyfriend, was in on the plot, too but she killed him when he got cold feet and ended up, ironically, in a freezer. he was going to turn her in. and he didn t want to be the getaway driver, he didn t want any part of it, he wanted out. and that s marjorie telling you that? yes. so, roden is dead because yes. he didn t want to be in on this thing. without a doubt. without a doubt. and then there was the other