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About Lemrick Nelson
- Lemrick Nelson, Jr.
- (born July 31, 1975) is an African-American man who stabbed Hasidic student Yankel Rosenbaum to death during the racial unrest of the 1991 Crown Heights riot.
- Though his lawyer did not deny at his trial that Nelson stabbed Rosenbaum, he argued that the killing had nothing to do with Rosenbaum's being Jewish.Nelson was arrested several times on unrelated charges over the following years.
- In a third trial for Rosenbaum's murder, Nelson was convicted of violating Rosenbaum's civil rights in the murder, and served a 10-year sentence.
- Nelson admitted for the first time at his 2003 trial that he had stabbed Rosenbaum.
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