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.
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