Sentencing is slated for Tuesday in the case of a man convicted on federal charges related to the fatal stabbing of rabbinical student Yankel Rosenbaum during the 1991 riots in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y. Lemrick Nelson could get 20 years in prison if the judge who sentences him believes the stabbing was premeditated murder. He faces seven years if the judge rules the death was manslaughter.
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