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CONVICTED. LEMRICK NELSON JR., 21, and CHARLES PRICE, 43, of civil rights violations in the 1991 death of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Hasidic Jew who was attacked by a band of black men after a car accident in which a Hasidic motorist struck and killed a black child; in New York City. Nelson was acquitted of murder in a 1992 state trial, but Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a federal investigation...
Until yesterday, in both the trials held in Kishinev, as well as in the trial held four years ago to prosecute Lemrick Nelson Jr., the defendants managed to escape justice. This escape reached absurd proportions in Nelson's case: after the "not guilty" verdict was returned, the "exonerated" man went to a party with the jurors who voted for him his freedom while Rosenbaum's family and the Jewish community mourned their loss...
...When Lemrick Nelson Jr. was acquitted nearly two years ago in the racially motivated stabbing of Yankel Rosenbaum, an Australian Hasidic scholar, Rosenbaum's friends were, naturally, upset...
...protestor was wrong in one respect. it wasn't Yankel Rosenbaum's fate that the jury was deciding--it was Lemrick Nelson's . Whether or not the verdict was fair, it was the product of a judicial system that, quite logically, favors the accused over the victim...
...actions of the jury in the Rosenbaum case are even more disturbing if one takes into account the jurors' actions following announcement of the verdict. In a staff editorial, The New York Times reported that the defense lawyer, Arthur Lewis, Jr. took the defendant, Lemrick Nelson, Jr., and the entire jury out to dinner to celebrate Nelson's acquittal...