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KINGS COUNTY DISTRICT
ATTORNEY CHARLES J. HYNES ANNOUNCES 55-YEAR SENTENCE IN
ATTEMPTED MURDER CASE
DEFENDANT ATTEMPTED TO ROB
74-YEAR-OLD MAN AT GUNPOINT
Brooklyn, February 27, 2008
– Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today
announced the sentencing of Edwin Grant, 23, to 55 years in
prison for a robbery in which he shot the victim and fired
at police.
Grant was sentenced to 25
years for Attempted Murder in the Second Degree, 15 years
for Attempted Robbery in the First Degree and 15years for
Attempted Aggravated Assault on a Police Officer, to run
consecutively.
On May 10, 2006, Dennis Moore, 74, who owns a
construction company and was renovating a church at 1698
Carroll Street, was carrying a payroll of approximately
$10,000 cash. After he parked his car, as he was walking
toward the worksite, the defendant and an accomplice
surrounded him, pointed firearms at his head and demanded
money. Grant pushed the victim and then struck him in the
head with the gun. Then they shot at Moore, striking him
three times in the knee, groin and buttocks.
Off-duty NYPD Detective Larry Young rushed to
help Moore. The officer identified himself, and the
defendant and his accomplice shot at the officer. The
officer returned fire, hitting Grant before Grant and his
accomplice fled in their vehicle, a burgundy Maxima.
Shortly after the incident, Grant was arrested
after he walked into Kings County Hospital with a gunshot
wound to the leg. Moore and the police officer identified
him. The burgundy Maxima, which was registered to the
defendant’s mother, was found with blood on the front seat
at Grant’s home a short while later.
The case was prosecuted by Lewis Lieberman,
Deputy Bureau Chief in charge of the Assault on Police
Officer Program, a unit of the District Attorney’s
Investigations Bureau. Deputy District Attorney John O’Mara
is Chief of the Investigations Bureau.
Contact: Sandy
Silverstein
718-250-2300
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BROOKLYN
DISTRICT ATTORNEY CHARLES J. HYNES HOSTS BLACK HISTORY MONTH
CELEBRATION HONORS NINE PEOPLE
Brooklyn,
February 27- Kings
County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes last night
celebrated the accomplishments of African-Americans who
positively contributed to the Criminal Justice System in
Brooklyn and New York City.
At
a Black History Month program held at Brooklyn Supreme
Court, DA Hynes invoked the memory of a number of
African-American trailblazers including, attorney George
Boyer Vishion, the first Black admitted to the New York
State Bar in 1848, after being repeatedly rejected because
of his race; and Eunice Hunter-Carter, first
African-American women admitted to the State Bar.
“As
we celebrate Blacks in the Criminal Justice System under the
theme: Making a Path for the Future, it is important for us
to remember that in the 1800’s and, the early 1900’s there
were very few African-Americans with leadership roles or few
roles in the Criminal Justice System,” said DA Hynes.
Shortly after admission to the State Bar, Hunter-Carter was
appointed a deputy assistant district attorney in the office
of New York County District Attorney Thomas Dewey in 1935.
Two years later she was appointed to a leadership position.
Her
appointment as the highest ranking African-American female
in law enforcement, DA Hynes recalled, was a result of her
investigation and prosecution of the largest organized-crime
prostitution ring in the United States.
“By
developing work and education, Hunter-Carter and other Black
trailblazers in the Criminal Justice System inspired young
African-Americans to take the right path,” said DA Hynes.
“They are people who go above and beyond what is needed to
help others get adjusted in the community,” he added.
DA
Hynes underscored that for all the advancements of
African-Americans in the legal profession and in government,
they only make up a 3.4 percent of the lawyers in the State.
DA
Hynes said history would point out that until recently,
African-American attorneys, judges, police, correction and
court officers were rarely acknowledged or treated equally
with their white colleagues.
“We
should never forget that the first African-American police
officer Moses P. Cobbs, assigned to what was then called the
12th Precinct in Brooklyn in 1891, was the victim
of repeated acts of racism by fellow officers and reassigned
in disgust 10 months after his appointment,” said DA Hynes.
As
the years passed, DA Hynes continued, more and more
African-Americans refused to be deterred from joining the
police department and moving through the ranks. He cited
Assistant Chief Lloyd Sealy who became the first
African-American Assistant Chief in 1966 and the first
African-American assigned to a Borough Command, Patrol
Borough Brooklyn North.
DA
Hynes said there are many African-American criminal justice
pioneers who are not listed in the history books: The first
African-American female judge in New York City, Jane M.
Bolin, appointed in July of 1939; the first African-American
Federal Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals, William Henry
Hastie, appointed in 1949; and the first African-American
Justice of the Appellate Division First Department, Harold
Stevens.
“It
would require aggressive, proactive programs to increase the
number of African-American law students,” said DA Hynes,
whose office most recently established a collaborative
effort with the Ronald H. Brown Center of St. John’s
University, to encourage students from Medgar Evers, John
Jay Colleges and other local schools to consider careers in
law.
DA
Hynes said that for 19 years his office has diverted drug
addicts from the Criminal Justice System into long-term
residential drug treatment, freeing addicts from going to
prison for life n the installment plan and turning them into
taxpayers.
“Our
re-entry program deals with the harsh reality that 6 out of
10 of the formerly incarcerated return to prison within
three years. We have developed programs that reduce that
percentage from six out of 10 to two out of 10,” he
declared.
A
highlight of the program was the presentation of awards to
the following: Attorney Thornton J. Meachan, Jr.; William
Brown, of the Doe Fund; Marvin Barrett, of the Peter G.
Young Shelter; Emory X. Brooks, CCM; Glenn Martin, of The
Fortune Society; Greg Jackson (Jaco); Barry Addison, Alpha
School, and the Center for NU Leadership on Urban Solutions.
Remarks were delivered by George Bundy Smith, former
Associate Judge Court of Appeals and Gloria Browne-Marshall,
author of Race, Law & American Society 1607 to Present.
Contact: J. Zamgba Browne
(718) 250-3850
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