Ex-Detroit Cop Gets 4-15 Years in Beating
From Times Wire Reports
A former Detroit police officer, whose second-degree murder conviction for a 1992 beating death was overturned, was sentenced to four to 15 years for involuntary manslaughter. Walter Budzyn, who has already spent 4 1/2 years in prison, will remain free until the judge decides how to credit the time served. He was convicted in a March retrial. Budzyn was convicted of second-degree murder for the beating of Malice Wayne Green outside a crack house.
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