Supreme Court Justice Troy K. Webber said she was "loathe to dismiss" the charge, but said that it appeared that the case had not been prosecuted earlier because the then-chief of the Bronx district attorney's Homicide Bureau "felt 'slighted' that she was not consulted prior to the defendant's arrest."
January 27, 2012 at 12:00 AM
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Nineteen years was too long to wait to prosecute a murder charge, a judge has ruled in throwing out a 2007 indictment for a 1988 Bronx shooting.
Supreme Court Justice Troy K. Webber (See Profile), sitting in the Bronx, dismissed an indictment charging Raed Ayyash with second-degree murder, finding that the prosecution’s 19-year delay in bringing it denied Mr. Ayyash his due process rights to prompt prosecution.
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