Sentencing was slated for Wednesday in the 1991 Crown Heights case. Lemrick Nelson was to be sentenced for violating Yankel Rosenbaum’s civil rights during the Brooklyn riots in which Rosenbaum, a scholar from Australia, was stabbed and killed.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.