May 26, 2010
Debate Continues Over Prosecution in 40-Year-Old Shooting
Now that a jury has acquitted a defendant charged with murdering a police officer whose 2007 death prosecutors tried to link to bullets the defendant shot into the officer more than 40 years earlier, many attorneys are questioning why the Philadelphia district attorney’s office proceeded to trial despite the lengthy time gap between the shooting and the officer’s death and despite the defendant’s prior attempted murder conviction in the shooting.