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Brooklyn DA to Appeal New Trial for ‘Killer’

By MARK TOOR
Posted 5/18/15

Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson has filed notice that he will appeal a judge’s decision ordering a new trial for a convicted killer she said was a victim of bad police work.

Mr. Thompson’s office declined to elaborate last week on why he disagreed with the decision of Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice ShawnDya Simpson in the case of Rosean S. Hargrave, who was convicted in 1991 of killing off-duty Correction Officer Rolando Neischer in an apparent robbery. She ordered Mr. Hargrave freed in April after 23 years in prison.

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