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Title: Murder Conviction of Slayed Rabbi Overturned
Post by: Dr. Dan on March 23, 2013, 06:11:20 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Murder Conviction of Slayed Rabbi Overturned
Post by: IsraelForever on March 24, 2013, 02:39:04 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Murder Conviction of Slayed Rabbi Overturned
Post by: Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks on March 24, 2013, 02:39:41 AM: I am skeptical. This is anti-Semitism at work in our legal system.
Title: Re: Murder Conviction of Slayed Rabbi Overturned
Post by: Rabbi Lipschitz on March 25, 2013, 10:46:55 PM: :'( May HasHem avenge Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger.
This European Nazi David Ranta is probably guilty, bias against Jewish victims in the legal system is commonplace.
Title: Re: Murder Conviction of Slayed Rabbi Overturned
Post by: Rubystars on March 26, 2013, 01:38:06 PM: Either way, guilty or innocent, he'll face God's judgment now and that will definitely be the correct verdict.