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    Cop killer’s brother arrested in beating of girlfriend

    The older brother of double convicted cop-killer Ronell Wilson was arrested Monday for beating his girlfriend inside their Staten Island apartment over the weekend, law enforcement sources told The Post.

    Uzziah Wilson, 37, was arrested on charges of assault and criminal possession of a weapon after his girlfriend Sunday Priddie, 34, went to the Staten Island parole office on Monday and told officers that Wilson attacked her at their Park Hill Avenue home in the Fox Hills section on Saturday, sources said.

    Priddie told parole officers that Wilson kicked opened their bedroom door, punched her in the face and dragged her across the floor, sources said. She also told parole officers that Wilson was stashing a .22 caliber handgun inside the fifth-floor residence.

    Police then showed up at the residence and recovered a .22 loaded revolver, but Wilson was at work at the time, sources said.

    Cops nabbed Wilson during a sting operation at around 5 p.m. on Monday just as he was coming off of the Staten Island Ferry.

    Police sources said that Wilson has nine prior arrests dating back to 1995 and seven of them are sealed. Wilson was arrested twice in 1996 on drug-related charges.

    He served time in jail from 1997 to 2005.

    Wilson was on parole on charges of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third-degree and attempted promoting of prison contraband in the first-degree.

    He was awaiting arraignment on Tuesday.

    Wilson’s younger brother Ronell, 34, was sentenced to death by a Brooklyn federal jury in 2013 for the March 10, 2003 execution-style murders of undercover NYPD detectives Rodney Andrews and James Nemorin during a gone buy-and-bust operation gone wrong.

    The Staten Island thug is currently on Death Row at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.

    http://nypost.com/2016/02/09/cop-kil...of-girlfriend/
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    Judge: Man on Death Row for Killing 2 Cops Can't Be Executed

    A federal judge has ruled that a man on death row for killing two undercover New York Police Department officers can't be executed because he is intellectually disabled.

    On Tuesday, Judge Nicholas Garaufis vacated an order that sentenced Ronell Wilson to death.

    Two juries had sentenced Wilson to die. But the judge found he can't be executed because he meets the legal standard to be considered intellectually disabled.

    Wilson was charged in the 2003 point-blank shootings of undercover officers James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews in a gun sting gone awry. The officers were shot in the backs of their heads.

    While he was incarcerated, Wilson impregnated a guard at a federal lockup.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/j...cuted-37665388
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    An appalling show of mercy for cop-killer Ronell Wilson

    By The New York Post Editorial Board

    Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis just gave cop-killer Ronell Wilson a new lease on life — three years after affirming his death sentence.

    We’re not big fans of the death penalty, but it’s still the law — and if ever a case called out for it, it’s this one.

    Wilson, a Bloods member, murdered two undercover detectives in a 2003 Staten Island gun-buy-bust gone bad. It was a cold-blooded, carefully executed crime — yet now he’ll live because he counts as “mentally impaired.”

    Never mind that he’d been found fit to stand trial, and for the death penalty.

    In Brooklyn federal court Tuesday, Garaufis overturned his own 2013 decision, tossing the death sentence two juries had imposed.

    The judge cited a 2014 US Supreme Court ruling that dramatically lowered the bar on what qualifies as mentally impaired. He now deems Wilson to have “significantly subaverage intellectual functioning” that developed before he turned 18.

    It’s just the latest time the courts have bent over backward for Wilson — who couldn’t deserve it less.

    First the US Court of Appeals threw out his death sentence over a few words in the prosecutor’s summation.

    That’s when a second jury found he deserved the ultimate penalty.

    Plus, a Suffolk County judge ruled that this callous killer had the right to see the infant son he fathered with a guard while behind bars — no matter the mother’s objections.

    Wilson has done far better by the criminal-justice system than the hero cops he slaughtered — James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews, who left five kids between them.

    Yes, Garaufis lamented “the pain that this decision is likely to cause” the cops’ families. But that doesn’t minimize it in the least — or the outrage and disgust that all decent New Yorkers should feel.

    Prosecutors can appeal the decision — but only if the Justice Department OKs it.

    We can’t say for sure whether the new Supreme Court guidelines left Garaufis no choice, or just gave him cover.

    That said, the high court’s constant shifting on such matters is a reminder of both how problematic the death penalty’s become — and of the stakes this November, as America chooses a president who’ll likely name three new justices.

    http://nypost.com/2016/03/15/an-appa...ronell-wilson/

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    NY Killer off Death Row as Definition of Disabled Gets Tweak

    Prosecutors say Ronell Wilson is a calculating murderer. Since his imprisonment for killing two New York City police detectives, he has been able to dash off emails, memorize passages from books and seduce a female guard.

    But Wilson's lawyers were able to convince a judge that he is a person of such a low intelligence that he can't function in society, and therefore can't legally be put to death.

    Wilson, 32, and others like him are at the center of a debate over how to enforce a nearly two-year-old U.S. Supreme Court ruling that adds more specificity to the concept that it is cruel and unusual punishment to execute killers who are intellectually disabled. It says courts should go beyond mere IQ scores to consider the person's mental or developmental disabilities.

    A federal judge in New York who revisited Wilson's case based on the ruling tossed out his death sentence, just three years after finding that Wilson's IQ score was high enough to make him eligible to be executed.

    A similar review led a judge in California last November to reduce a death sentence given three decades ago to Donald Griffin, a man who raped and murdered his 12-year-old stepdaughter.

    A third appeal based on the ruling, that of a Virginia serial killer with a borderline IQ score, failed. Alfredo Prieto was executed in October.

    Legal scholars say similar death row decisions are likely to follow, depending on how the high court's ruling is applied around the country.

    "We should see courts more carefully considering whether defendants have an intellectual disability ... that doesn't mean we will," said Robert Dunham, the executive director of the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center.

    Wilson is a case study in the difficulty of determining who fits the court's definition of someone too intellectually limited to qualify for capital punishment.

    He was a 20-year-old drug dealer and member of the Bloods street gang in 2003 when he shot undercover police detectives James Nemorin and Rodney Andrew, who were gathering evidence against Wilson in a gun trafficking investigation.

    While in prison, Wilson had a tryst with a female prison guard, fathering a child. When that relationship was discovered by jail officials, he interrogated and threatened fellow inmates he believed had ratted him out.

    Judges and juries rely partly on a person's IQ score to determine whether he or she is intellectually disabled. Before 2014, some states had a hard rule that if a person's IQ score was above 70, he or she couldn't be deemed intellectually disabled. Over his lifetime, Wilson had been given IQ tests nine times. All but once, he scored over 70.

    Yet, his full history, outlined in his court file, paints a more complex picture.

    In elementary school, he was repeatedly hospitalized for emergency psychiatric treatment. One time he stood in the middle of a busy street and refused to move. He tried to jump out a window. He smashed furniture, bit and kicked teachers and banged his head against a wall. When a fire started at his school, he refused to leave his classroom, saying he wanted to die.

    "When I speak to him or ask him a question, he becomes motionless and rigid and doesn't move," a first-grade teacher wrote.

    School officials put him in a program for children with behavioral problems. He was prescribed psychiatric medications. By age 8 he was diagnosed as having "moderate mental retardation," though doctors later decided he had a possible mental disorder due to brain damage. In middle school, he was still sucking his thumb.

    Wilson started getting arrested for a variety of criminal offenses at age 12.

    U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis said in his ruling Tuesday that he had no sympathy for Wilson and also doubted most clinicians would consider him disabled. But he said he had "significant deficits in adaptive functioning" — enough to make him ineligible for the death penalty. Garaufis imposed a new punishment of life in prison.

    Sheri Lynn Johnson, a death penalty expert at Cornell University's law school, said building a case for intellectual disability involves showing that the person has trouble performing simple life tasks.

    "Can he use a telephone book? Can he count change? Does he have normal relationships or is he taken advantage of? This is what they're looking for," she said.

    Currently, 31 U.S. states, the federal government and the U.S. military all have statutes permitting the death penalty. Nearly 3,000 people were on death row, as of January, according to a report compiled by the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/n...tweak-37792073

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    EDNY Prosecutors to Appeal Reversal of Death Sentence

    The Eastern District U.S. Attorney's Office will appeal a judge's decision to vacate a death sentence for a man convicted of murdering 2 police officers.

    Prosecutors filed notice Tuesday saying they would challenge the decision to undo Ronell Wilson's death sentence. Eastern District Judge Nicholas Garaufis said Wilson was ineligible for capital punishment because he was intellectually disabled in the eyes of the law.

    Garaufis had ruled in February 2013 that Wilson was not intellectually disabled and, therefore, eligible for capital punishment. Later that year, a jury said Wilson deserved death for the 2003 killings of undercover detectives Rodney Andrews and James Nemorin.

    Wilson appealed, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit sent the case back to Garaufis to review Wilson's mental capacity in light of a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case, Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986.

    On March 15, Garaufis said he would impose life imprisonment without the possibility of parole based on a "careful interpretation of evolving Supreme Court precedent and a sober review of the evidence."

    Wilson was convicted of the crimes in 2006; the same jury voted for execution. In 2010, the circuit kept the jury's guilt determination intact, but ordered retrial on the penalty phase.

    Assistant U.S. Attorney Amy Busa filed the notice of appeal in U.S. v. Wilson. 04-cr-1016.

    David Stern of Rothman, Schneider, Soloway & Stern, a member of Wilson's defense, declined to comment.

    http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/id=...20160224081619

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    Feds ask for more time to consider cop killer Ronell Wilson's 'intellectual disability'

    Federal prosecutors want more time to decide whether to appeal a Brooklyn judge’s decision to revoke the death penalty against convicted cop killer Ronell Wilson.

    In papers filed in Brooklyn federal court, prosecutors said they want to figure out their next legal move in the case after the U.S. Supreme Court reviews a case about the legal standard for “intellectual disability.”

    The Justice Department is weighing whether to formally ask the U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis’ ruling last year that Wilson is ineligible for execution for the cold-blooded murders of NYPD undercover detectives Rodney Andrews and James Nemorin during a gun buy-and-bust in Staten Island in 2003.

    The judge found Wilson, 34, suffered from significant sub-average intellectual functioning and deficits in his adaptive functioning, despite evidence that he carried out the crime with cunning, then years later seduced and impregnated a female prison guard.

    Garaufis had presided over Wilson’s trial and two penalty phases in which separate juries sentenced to die by lethal injection. The first death verdict was reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals due to prosecutorial error.

    Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would review the case of Bobby Moore versus the state of Texas to determine whether current medical standards or a 1992 criteria should be used to determine whether a convicted killer is intellectually disabled.

    Moore has been on death row since 1980 for killing a clerk during a grocery store robbery. His disability claim was rejected last year by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals because he failed to meet “a set of unscientific criteria based on the fictional character of Lennie Smalls from the novel "Of Mice and Men,” according to the Death Penalty Information Center web site.

    After Garaufis' decision, the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's office filed a notice to preserve its right to appeal, and sought a determination from the Solicitor General of the United States.

    “The Court’s decision in Moore therefore will likely implicate any determination of whether to appeal and if an appeal were pursued, in resolving that appeal,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Amy Busa stated in motion papers.

    Wilson, 34, has been moved from death row in Terre Haute, Ind., to the McCreary Penitentiary in Kentucky, where he is serving a life term without the possibility of parole.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.2704746

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    Man Who Murdered 2 Officers Gets Unexpected News

    A New York man who killed two detectives has been taken off of death row after a federal judge found that he is legally considered to be intellectually disabled.

    Ronell Wilson, 33, was sentenced to death for a March 10, 2003, incident in which he shot James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews, both of whom were undercover NYPD detectives, reports WPIX. Both were shot in the back of the head.

    In court in 2006, a prosecutor said Wilson was part of a Staten Island gang called the Stapleton Crew. The prosecutor said Wilson may have been trying to steal $1,200 from the detectives while they posed as potential gun buyers.

    Wilson was convicted by a jury and sentenced to death by lethal injection.

    In 2010, the sentence was thrown out by an appeals court due to a jury error. In 2013, prosecutors repeated the penalty phase and a jury resentenced him to death. Wilson has been in a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, since the 2013 sentencing.

    In 2012, Wilson impregnated a prison guard, Nancy Gonzales while incarcerated in New York City. Their child, Justus, was born soon after Gonzales was arrested, reports Daily Mail.

    Gonzales was sentenced to prison for one year and one day for having relations with an inmate.

    During a 2012 hearing, a judge found that Wilson’s IQ scores may qualify him for being considered intellectually disabled.

    The Supreme Court ruled in 2014 that IQ score alone was not enough for a judge to determine a person to be intellectually disabled.

    After reviewing his findings, Wilson was ruled to be intellectually disabled on March 15 and was removed from death row. He will serve life in prison without parole, reports the Daily Mail.

    http://www.opposingviews.com/i/socie...nexpected-news
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    It looks as though the Department of Justice has chosen not to appeal to the Second Circuit and that Wilson has been given a life sentence.

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