Black Reps Shun Lemrick Letter: Rangel, Owens and Towns neutral on push to avoid retrial in Crown Heights slaying; Dems hit Pataki for courting Fulani party

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: March 29, 2002| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

In a sign that the Crown Heights murder case remains a racial and political hot potato, three black New York congressmen declined last week to sign a letter that calls the reversal of two convictions in the case "possible miscarriages of justice."

The three were among 17 House members who met March 19 on Capitol Hill with Norman Rosenbaum, brother of slay victim Yankel Rosenbaum, to discuss the case. Each member was given a draft of the letter to U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson, ...

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