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...said he does plan to join the case with his brother sometime this summer if and when Peterson files an appeal, but so far he has not been retained and said he has only been briefed on the case for a couple of hours...
...latest case involves William Peterson, proprietor of Crazy Billy’s Park Liquors in Long Island. In 1995, Peterson hired two men to firebomb two of his rivals, Bottles & Cases and Bottle Bargains. Last fall a jury found Peterson guilty but a judge has yet to hand down sentence in the case...
After his conviction, Peterson claimed his trial attorney, David Clayton, had failed to reveal a conflict of interest, since Clayton had once been prosecuted on tax charges by the same district attorney’s office that handled Peterson’s case...
Under New York state law, accomplice testimony must be bolstered by physical evidence. His defense team maintains that prosecutors got around this requirement by trying Peterson not under state law but under a federal law passed after Sept. 11 to target terrorists and drug dealers...
...Without physical evidence against Mr. Peterson, they charged under a sloppy Congressional statute,” Nathan Dershowitz said...