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Appeals Court Orders New Murder Trial In Burlington County For Juror's Comment
"Regrettably agree." Those were the words that completely changed the direction of a Burlington County murder case dating back to 2017, giving the defendant an entirely new third trial. The comment made to the judge led a New Jersey Appeals Court to overturn the murder conviction for 28-year-old Douglas Lewis in the shooting death of 24-year-old Shaquille Williams. The jurors were being polled on the outcome of the conviction when Juror No. 7 made the remark, paperwork details. The trial court judge, however, never asked why the juror added the comment and should have, the Appeals Co…
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COVID Relief Money Collected By South Jersey Street Gang, 6 'Racketeers' Arrested: Prosecutor
A gang of South Jersey men fraudulently collected COVID-19 relief money among an assortment of other crimes including murder, authorities said. Six members of a Sunbury Village-based street gang have been charged with operating a criminal enterprise that is accused of carrying out multiple shootings – including two homicides – along with committing burglary, intimidating witnesses, possessing numerous firearms and fraudulently obtaining more than $125,000 in pandemic relief funds from the federal government, authorities said. Eight others have been charged for thei…
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South Jersey Man Sentenced In 2017 Murder Case
A Burlington County man's maximum sentence could keep in prison until he is in his 80s after he being found guilty of murder. Douglas Lewis, 26, Pemberton Township, was found guilty of murder and weapons charges in July. Lewis has been sentenced to 58 years in New Jersey state prison for fatally shooting Shaquille Williams, 24, in a vehicle parked in the 100 block of Kinsley Road on March 21, 2017 just before 9 p.m., according to Prosecutor Scott Coffina Lewis is thought to have killed Williams as payback for robbing one of Lewis’s associates, as the Coffina argued during the trial. “This…
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Jury Convicts Burlington County Man, 25, In Fatal 'Payback' Shooting, Prosecutor Says
A jury in South Jersey found a 25-year-old man from Pemberton Township guilty in a 2017 fatal shooting, authorities said. The jury deliberated for about eight hours over two days before returning a guilty verdict against Douglas Lewis of Fort Dix Road for first-degree murder, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. The jury concluded that Lewis fatally shot Shaquille Williams, 24, from Browns Mills in the Sunbury Village section of Pemberton Township four years ago, Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina said on Wednesday.. Pemberton police were called to Kinsley …
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