Long Island

Content Preview

Newsday/Optimum Online® subscribers click here for full access
Not a Newsday or Optimum Online® subscriber? Click here

Bulletproof vests rarely used for witnesses

Veteran Long Island attorneys said they rarely, if ever, see witnesses walking into courts wearing bulletproof vests, but they said Aaron White's appearance at his father's trial in Suffolk County Court with the device Monday wasn't unprecedented.

"Colin Ferguson had one on," said Bruce Barket, a Garden City defense attorney, referring to the man who was convicted in February 1995 of murdering...

newsday.com is now available at no charge to Newsday and Optimum Online® subscribers. To continue reading, please log in or register now.

  • Already
    registered on
    newsday.com?
    log in
  • Already a subscriber
    to Newsday or
    Optimum Online®?
    get access
  • Not a Newsday
    or Optimum Online®
    subscriber?
    click here

Photos and videos