A Brooklyn judge Thursday denied former New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Peter Liang's request for a new trial, clearing the way for his sentencing next Tuesday, April 19.
State Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun ruled that
Liang's attorneys did not prove that 62-year-old Michael Vargas, known
as Juror 9, committed juror misconduct during jury selection when he
said no one in his close family had been accused of a crime. Vargas'
father, Norberto Vargas, was convicted of manslaughter and served more
than seven years in prison for "accidentally shooting a friend,"
according to a motion filed by Liang's attorneys — Paul Shechtman and
Gabriel J. Chin — that quoted Vargas in an interview with the New York Daily News.
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