May 15, 2003
FINALLY, more than a decade
FINALLY, more than a decade on, at least some justice for the killer of Australian Jew Yankel Rosenbaum:
Posted by Tim Blair at May 15, 2003 05:11 PM
A US federal jury today convicted a black man in the stabbing death of an Australian Jewish scholar during a 1991 riot in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighbourhood that widened New York City's racial divide.
Yankel Rosenbaum, a visiting scholar from Melbourne, Australia, was stabbed as a gang of blacks yelled, "Get the Jew!"
Today, after three trials in 12 years, Lemrick Nelson, 27, was found guilty by a federal jury of violating the civil rights of Rosenbaum. Ruling on a separate question, the jury found that Nelson's actions did not result in Rosenbaum's death.
As a result he faces up to 10 years in prison, rather than a possible life sentence.