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Marcelo Lucero, 38, who moved to Patchogue 15 years ago, was fatally attacked by seven students, all 17 and 16 years old from the Patchogue-Medford High School, according to Suffolk police. They were charged with felony gang assault. One of them, Jeffrey Conroy, also was charged with manslaughter as a hate crime for allegedly stabbing Lucero in the chest. In front of a Central Islip courtroom, Assistant District Attorney Nancy Clifford said the group plotted late Saturday to target a Hispanic stranger in a racially motivated attack.
Marcelo Lucero, 38, who moved to Patchogue 15 years ago, was fatally attacked by seven students, all 17 and 16 years old from the Patchogue-Medford High School, according to Suffolk police. They were charged with felony gang assault. One of them, Jeffrey Conroy, also was charged with manslaughter as a hate crime for allegedly stabbing Lucero in the chest. In front of a Central Islip courtroom, Assistant District Attorney Nancy Clifford said the group plotted late Saturday to target a Hispanic stranger in a racially motivated attack.
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Last Teen Sentenced In 2008 Stabbing Death of Immigrant
The last of seven Long Island teenagers involved in the 2008 stabbing death of an Ecuadorean immigrant has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Marcelo Lucero was stabbed in a confrontation near the Patchogue, N.Y., train station. The killing...Tags: Court Preliminary, Prosecution, Teen-agers, Crime, Law and Justice, Defendants
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Man Convicted Of Ecuadorean Immigrant's Murder As A Hate Crime At Retrial
Associated Press WriterA man was convicted Monday of murder as a hate crime during his retrial on charges that he beat an Ecuadorean immigrant with an aluminum baseball bat after mistaking him and his brother for a gay couple. Jurors deliberated for about seven hours before...Tags: Laws, Court Preliminary, Hate Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons
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Judge Sonia: N.Y. in D.C., with contentious edge
Spin CycleCesar Perales was seated early, before the Senate hearing room filled up. He stayed, just a couple of rows back from Judge Sonia Sotomayor and her relatives, all the way through the hours of speech making that consumed the......Tags: Jose Serrano, Crime, Law and Justice, Utah, Kirsten Gillibrand, Society
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2 Men Plead Not Guilty In Hate Crime
Two Ecuadorean brothers, stumbling home arm-in-arm after a night out, were viciously attacked, and one beaten to death with a baseball bat, by prejudiced, anti-Hispanic men who mistook them for a gay couple, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Hakim Scott and...Tags: Laws, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Gays and Lesbians
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Levy on immigrant killing: Just a one-day story!!!
Spin CycleOur Reid Epstein, covering the Patchogue gang killing, interviews Suffolk executive Steve Levy, who insists that the hate murder of a Hispanic immigrant would just be a one-day story if people weren't trying to pick on his policies on......Tags: Demographics, Laws, Racism, Crime, Law and Justice, Long Island
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Steve Levy: Leaderless in Suffolk?
Spin CycleGiven the puzzling decision of some editors here to have our "hyper-local" newspaper devote its cover for two straight days to fluffy wire stories about Barack Obama instead of the hate murder of a Hispanic immigrant in Patchogue, you......Tags: Barack Obama, Laws, Demographics, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights
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Lucero hate murder: Levy says he made a mistake
Spin CycleSuffolk Exec Steve Levy was blasted both in this Spin Cycle item yesterday and in a column by Dan Janison today for arguing that the hate murder of Marcello Lucero was a "one-day story" that the media was inflating......Tags: Demographics, Murder, Politics, Illegal Immigrants, Crime, Law and Justice
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Immigrant murder: Back on the cover
Spin CycleIn an item Wednesday, we were pretty critical of Suffolk Exec Steve Levy for saying that the murder of Marcello Lucero should have been a "one-day story," and of Newsday for taking a murder off of its cover after......Tags: Murder, Crime, Law and Justice, Steve Levy, Crimes
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Panning Levy II: Exec's "pitiful program"
Spin CycleWe aren't the only ones not impressed by Steve Levy's "one-day story" performance in the wake of the murder of Marcello Lucero, left. In this blog post, Pat Young of the Central American Refugee Center says the Suffolk executives......Tags: Politics, Steve Levy, Refugee
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Ten for a Thursday: Wielding the Albany ax
Spin CycleGov. Paterson's new budget-balancing plan came in for lots of criticism yesterday, as schools warned it would force them to cut staff and extracurricular programs and increase class size. Paterson's proposals have been tried before, not with a lot......Tags: Alaska, Government, Steve Levy, Sarah Palin, Executive Branch
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Monday morning ten: Vetting Bill
Spin CycleThe Obama team has begun vetting Bill Clinton, suggesting that Hillary will receive the much rumored offer to become Secretary of State. But Bill's activities could create ample opportunity for conflicts of interest. In an interview with 60 Minutes,......Tags: Inauguration of President Barack Obama (2009), Bill Clinton, Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Presidential Election (2008)
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Levy attended night vigil with 'no politicians here...'
Spin CycleAs described in this previous post, Suffolk Executive Steve Levy on Monday sidestepped a question about which services he attended relating to the death of Marcelo Lucero. Today reporter Reid Epstein follows up: Levy spokesman Dan Aug said the......Tags: Politics, Patchogue, Steve Levy, Medford, Public Relations
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