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...Former Friend. After Rowell was arrested and charged with nine armed robberies, he was asked by his lawyer, George Simno, if he had any information that might lessen his sentence. Rowell hesitated and said he knew something about "the hamburger murder"--and then gave up Cousin for the Gerardi murder. However, at Cousin's trial nine months later, Rowell recanted completely and testified that he had only said what prosecutors and his lawyer told...
Roger Jordan, one of Connick's star prosecutors, says such charges are scurrilous and the Cousin case, in particular, was built on solid evidence. "You've got three IDs of Shareef Cousin, one positive, two tentative," says Jordan. "You had five different lineups of six pictures each, and Shareef was identified each time...
...what about the evidence that indicates that Cousin was at a basketball game or on his way home with coach White around the time of the murder? "We investigated that alibi seriously," says Jordan. "We had witnesses telling us these games usually lasted 35 to 40 minutes. The defense was trying to make a 40-minute basketball game into an hour and a half." Of course, the key question is when the game started--and White and several other witnesses say it started around 9:30 p.m., leaving Cousin, if he was the killer, an improbably small amount of time...
...brutal nature of Cousin's alleged crime, Jordan argues, called for the ultimate punishment. "It was an armed robbery," he says. "He pulled the gun prior to the robbery. He shot Mike in the face. Then he held him up to pick his pockets. Mike Gerardi was just another bag of bones. Shareef Cousin didn't care if Mike was dead or alive. A jury of 12 citizens looked at this crime. The jury spoke...
Babin is still haunted by Cousin. "It was very hard to sit on that witness stand and breathe the same air as he, Shareef, does," she says. "He knows what I know. Unfortunately, Shareef and I are the only two people left who know what happened." There was something about him on the night of the murder, she says, that she can't shake. "He was the one who made eye contact," says Babin. "I watched his face. I watched his hands. I'll live with that. That's the face Michael...