Saturday, March 3, 2012

JUDGE TO REMAIN FOR RETRIAL IN LOUIMA TORTURE CASE.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: -- Associated Press

NEW YORK -- Charles Schwarz, a former New York City police officer whose conviction was overturned in the Abner Louima torture case, was denied a different federal judge for his new trial.

U.S. District Court Judge Reena Raggi refused to remove herself from re-examining Schwarz's role in the 1997 police station attack on Louima, a Haitian immigrant.

Schwarz's lawyers and Raggi declined to …

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