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Crown Heights Convictions

NPR
Published February 9, 1997 at 11:00 PM CST

Gene Johnson of member station WNYC reports on today's verdict in the Crown Heights federal civil rights trial. A jury in New York convicted two men for violating the civil rights of Yankel Rosenbaum, who was killed during what police call a 'race riot' in 1991.

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