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Reporting Catherine Cioffi
ALBANY, NY (AP / CBSNewYork) - New York’s top court will hear the appeal of a former New York City police officer challenging his murder conviction for shooting a man wielding a baseball bat during a fight outside a Westchester County delicatessen in 1996.
Richard DiGuglielmo was found guilty of recklessly killing 37-year-old Charles Campbell, a White Plains sanitation worker, in the off-duty 1996 incident over a parking spot outside the deli DiGuglielmo’s father owned in Dobbs Ferry. Campbell was fighting with DiGuglielmo’s father when the off-duty officer opened fire.
He was freed in 2008 when a Westchester judge ruled that witnesses at his trial were pressured into giving testimony favorable to the prosecution.
But a midlevel court said the jury would have convicted DiGuglielmo anyway and ordered him to again surrender.
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He’s serving a sentence of 20 years to life in state prison.
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4 Comments
Another case of a trigger happy goon thinking the law doesn’t apply to him. may he rot in jail and his family experience severe hardships while he pays his debt to society.
May 31, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Based on what was reported in the press, the man appeared to be defending his father and himself against an attacker with a baseball bat. It was surprising that he was arrested, indicted and convicted by a jury in the first place. Hopefully, justice will prevail in the end.
May 31, 2011 at 2:36 pm
That was justice. Every cop who breaks the law undermines our very society. They deserve more severe punishment than the courts are willing to impose. He deserves the death penalty like any murderer.
May 31, 2011 at 4:34 pm
I guess the jury did not buy his self defense motive?
June 1, 2011 at 12:25 pm