Lawyers sum up in wrongful conviction case
Photo credit: Dick Yarwood | Defendant John Kogut listens to Nassau County Court Judge Victor Ort as he finds him not guilty of all counts in murder/ rape of Theresa Fusco. (Dec. 21, 2005)
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Attorneys for three former Lynbrook men argued to a federal court jury in Central Islip Monday that their clients had been maliciously prosecuted and wrongly convicted of the 1984 murder of a teenage girl.
John Kogut was 22 back then, and his attorney, Anthony Grandinetti, said Monday in his summation that the young man came from a broken home and was taken away from his parents at age 5....
