By Kory Grow, Rolling Stone | A judge overturned the conviction of Karl Jordan, Jr., one of the two men found guilty last year for the 2002 murder of Jam Master Jay, on Friday. U.S. District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall decided to acquit Jordan, according to The Associated Press, after ruling that the U.S. attorneys prosecuting the case didn’t provide enough evidence of a motive for Jordan to kill the Run-DMC DJ, whose real name was Jason Mizell.
Judge DeArcy Hall, who had presided over the trial, denied the other man convicted in Mizell’s death, the DJ’s childhood friend Ronald Washington, requests for acquittal and a new trial. The New York Times reports that she believed the government proved its case with regard to Washington.
Although a witness, Uriel “Tony” Rincon, told the jury he saw Jordan fire the fatal shot that killed Mizell, Judge DeArcy Hall decided that prosecutors ultimately failed to connect the shooting to its overarching narrative, alleging Mizell’s murder was an act of revenge after he cut Washington out of a drug deal.
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