This guy gets a 15 year term for a weapons charge. In Canada I bet you he would receive 2-3 years if anything, The jurors did not believe the police testimony.
15-Year Term Is Given on a gun possession charge.
Published: April 1, 2008
A Brooklyn man with a history of attacking police officers was sentenced on Monday to 15 years in prison on a weapons charge. The charges arose from a case in which the man, Damion Henry, was initially charged with attempted murder after the authorities said he had fired an Uzi submachine gun at two police officers outside a nightclub in East Flatbush.
Mr. Henry, 27, was acquitted last month on the attempted murder charges after several jurors at his trial in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn said they did not believe that the officers, Andrew Rydlewski and Sgt. Ajay Kapour, who testified against him, were entirely honest on the witness stand.
At the trial, his lawyer, Harold C. Baker, mounted a defense that Mr. Henry had been framed by the police and the bouncers at the club, the Ragtop Lounge, after a confrontation in 2004. The bouncers had summoned the officers with calls to their private cellphones, not to 911.
Mr. Henry was the first person charged under a new law that increased prison sentences for the attempted murder of a police officer. He was also the first person acquitted under the law. The 15-year sentence was the maximum he could have received on the gun charge, second-degree weapons possession.
Mr. Henry is already serving a separate 25-year prison sentence for shooting up a Brooklyn restaurant in 2005 after being told to smoke outside. In 2002, he was charged with shooting an officer in the arm but was acquitted. Two years later, he intervened in an arrest and was charged with punching one of the same officers in the Uzi incident, Officer Rydlewski, in the face. He pleaded guilty to a low-level misdemeanor in that case.More Articles in New York Region ยป
15-Year Term Is Given on a gun possession charge.
Published: April 1, 2008
A Brooklyn man with a history of attacking police officers was sentenced on Monday to 15 years in prison on a weapons charge. The charges arose from a case in which the man, Damion Henry, was initially charged with attempted murder after the authorities said he had fired an Uzi submachine gun at two police officers outside a nightclub in East Flatbush.
Mr. Henry, 27, was acquitted last month on the attempted murder charges after several jurors at his trial in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn said they did not believe that the officers, Andrew Rydlewski and Sgt. Ajay Kapour, who testified against him, were entirely honest on the witness stand.
At the trial, his lawyer, Harold C. Baker, mounted a defense that Mr. Henry had been framed by the police and the bouncers at the club, the Ragtop Lounge, after a confrontation in 2004. The bouncers had summoned the officers with calls to their private cellphones, not to 911.
Mr. Henry was the first person charged under a new law that increased prison sentences for the attempted murder of a police officer. He was also the first person acquitted under the law. The 15-year sentence was the maximum he could have received on the gun charge, second-degree weapons possession.
Mr. Henry is already serving a separate 25-year prison sentence for shooting up a Brooklyn restaurant in 2005 after being told to smoke outside. In 2002, he was charged with shooting an officer in the arm but was acquitted. Two years later, he intervened in an arrest and was charged with punching one of the same officers in the Uzi incident, Officer Rydlewski, in the face. He pleaded guilty to a low-level misdemeanor in that case.More Articles in New York Region ยป
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