Patchogue hate crime defendant: 'I'm not a monster'
Photo credit: Ed Betz | Jose Pacheco appears in court in Riverhead. (Jan. 28, 2009)
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Patchogue hate crime slaying
Over the past year, he has turned 18, earned his GED and dreamed about moving to California and going to college. All from the confines of a Suffolk County Jail cell.
Jose Pacheco is one of seven defendants charged with participating in the hate killing of Marcelo Lucero, and the only minority among the group. He and five others have been held in jail for nearly a year awaiting trial in the...
