The attorney for defendant Keith Phoenix withdrew his initial request to call Phoenix’s mother-in-law as a witness in the ongoing hate-crime trial. Attorney Philip J. Smallman says Phoenix’s mother-in-law would have testified that she is [...]
Monday, May 3, 2010
Prosecutors have rested their case after calling a New York City police detective and a forensic biologist to the stand to testify in the ongoing hate-crime trial of Hakim Scott and Keith Phoenix, who are [...]
Monday, May 3, 2010
The third week of the hate-crime trial of Keith Phoenix, 30, and his friend, Hakim Scott, 26, began at 11:30 a.m. Prosecutors will call two witnesses today. Moments ago, Scott confirmed he would not testify [...]
Monday, May 3, 2010
The Brooklyn Ink is in court every day following the trial of Keith Phoenix and Hakim Scott who are charged with the hate-crime murder of Jose Sucuzhanay. Jeannette Neumann is reporting from Jay Street today.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
By Nate Rawlings Officer Daniel Ludeman squatted in the back of the ambulance as is sped toward Elmhurst Hospital. Next to him, paramedics monitored Jose Sucuzhanay’s vital signs, making sure he was still breathing and [...]
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Two witnesses testified for the prosecution as the murder trial for Keith Phoenix and Hakim Scott resumed after a long weekend break. Kuson Nelson, a resident of Bushwick Avenue, testified that he was returning home the [...]
Monday, April 26, 2010
By NATE RAWLINGS In the first three days of grueling and at times gut-wrenching testimony, prosecutors presented witnesses, transcripts, tapes, and documents that prove Jose Sucuzhanay died after an altercation with Keith Phoenix and Hakim Scott. The [...]
Friday, April 23, 2010
By Amanda Massa Romel Sucuzhanay had been on the witness stand for half an hour, looking as if he wished he were anyplace else. He looked off into the middle distance, and at the interpreter [...]
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Demetrius Nathaniel walked slowly into the courtroom, looking directly ahead as he took the witness stand to testify against his cousin, Keith Phoenix.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Kimbale Taylor, an EMT, witnessed the beating from her bedroom window and called 911. During her testimony, she positively identified Keith Phoenix as the man who hit Jose Sucuzhanay repeatedly with a baseball bat. “He [...]
Monday, May 3, 2010
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