Retrial Sought in Death of New Jersey Trooper
Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. —
The state attorney general said Wednesday he will re-try Richard C. Williams, one of two avowed revolutionaries accused of gunning down a state trooper in 1981.
Williams’ murder trial ended in a mistrial Jan. 18 when the jury deadlocked on whether he was at the scene when Trooper Philip Lamonaco was shot to death along Interstate 80 in Warren County. His co-defendant, Thomas Manning, was convicted of felony murder.
“I can’t let a police officer’s murder hang unresolved,” said Atty. Gen. W. Cary Edwards.
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