Murder Conviction of Slayed Rabbi Overturned

[Dr. Dan]

The day after this guy was freed, he suffered a heart attack.  I wonder what JTFers make of this.  Can someone ask Chaim about this case on askJTF?

http://news.yahoo.com/jailed-23-years-ny-man-freed-heart-attack-175347312.html

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man whose murder conviction was overturned after 23 years in prison has suffered a heart attack on his second day of freedom.
David Ranta's lawyer tells The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/102uUVo ) the former inmate had a serious heart attack Friday night and is being treated at a New York hospital.
Ranta walked out of jail Thursday after a judge threw out his conviction in the 1990 killing of a Brooklyn rabbi.
Brooklyn prosecutors had recently concluded Ranta's prosecution in the death of Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger was fatally flawed.
Werzberger was killed by a bandit fleeing a botched robbery. One witness said a police lineup that helped convict Ranta had been rigged.
Ranta is 58. He told reporters Thursday that his new freedom was emotionally overwhelming.

[IsraelForever]

I see it like this:  If the man is, indeed, innocent, then I would imagine that being set free was just so overwhelming to him as to cause a heart attack.  I can totally understand it. 

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

I am skeptical. This is anti-Semitism at work in our legal system.

[Rabbi Lipschitz]

  May HasHem avenge Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger.
This European Nazi David Ranta  is probably guilty, bias against Jewish victims in the legal system is commonplace.

[Rubystars]

Either way, guilty or innocent, he'll face God's judgment now and that will definitely be the correct verdict.