Judge nixes conviction of one of two men found guilty of killing Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge Friday voided the conviction of one of the two men found guilty of the 2002 killing of Run-D. M. C. star Jam Master Jay, ruling that there wasn't enough evidence that the man had a motive to kill the hip-hop luminary. The reversal, which came as the judge upheld the other man's conviction, marked another stunning and confounding turn in one of the hip-hop world’s most elusive cases. It stymied investigators for nearly two decades before two arrests were made in and...
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