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Outrage and Uncertainty After Verdict in Bell Case
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| Contributor | Bob |
| Last Edited | Bob Apr 25, 2008 09:16pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Saturday, April 26, 2008 03:15:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | They felt angry and defiant and sad. Mostly, they felt empty.
Three detectives had been on trial for a range of charges, from manslaughter to misdemeanor reckless endangerment. But Sean Bell’s survivors and their supporters left the courthouse in Queens on Friday, after seven weeks of testimony and 17 months of mourning, with nothing but not guilty.
“We just all gasped, like, ‘Wow, how could you throw out this whole case?’” said Les Paultre, the father of Nicole Paultre Bell, who was to marry Mr. Bell the day he was fatally shot by the police outside the strip club where his bachelor party had been held. “That’s basically what the judge did. He just threw out this whole case.”
After Justice Arthur J. Cooperman read his verdict to the packed courtroom, a momentary silence was followed by sobs and words of disbelief from Mr. Bell’s relatives and supporters. Later they headed to a cemetery on Long Island and bowed their heads over red flowers that marked Mr. Bell’s grave. |
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