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FILE - In this July 1, 2016 file photo, Russell Peeler Jr., speaks in Bridgeport Superior Court, in Bridgeport, Conn., where he was sentenced to two consecutive life terms without the possibility of release. Connecticut and federal prosecutors are fighting a proposed prison sentence reduction for Peeler, a former Bridgeport drug dealer convicted in the killing of an 8-year-old murder trial witness and the boy s mother. (Ned Gerard/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File) January 11, 2021 - 9:02 AM
HARTFORD, Conn. - Prosecutors believed justice was served nearly two decades ago when Adrian Peeler was sentenced to a combined 60 years in state and federal prisons for his roles in Bridgeport s cocaine trade and the 1999 killings of an 8-year-old murder trial witness and the boy s mother.
Adrian Peeler, 44, was sentenced to 60 years in state and federal prison for drug dealing and the deaths of Karen Clarke, 30, and her son, Leroy B.J. Brown, eight, in Bridgeport, Connecticut.