Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Plea averts trial in NY Hasidic firebombing case


A Hasidic teenager pleaded guilty Tuesday to assault, averting a trial in an attempted murder case that brought unusual attention to a religious dispute in a Jewish enclave.

Shaul Spitzer, 18, accepted a plea bargain as jury selection was about to begin at the Rockland County Courthouse in New City, said defense attorney Deborah Lowenberg.

Spitzer had been accused of severely burning neighbor Aron Rottenberg with a firebomb outside Rottenberg's home in New Square, an insular Hasidic village of 7,000.[...]

7 comments:

  1. The article's not very informative. What did he plead guilty to?

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  2. There went my jury nullification prediction.

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  3. first degree assault - the video is more informative

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  4. a good chasid -- took the hit for the rebbe. kept it quiet.

    will make a good shidduch.

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  5. Daas Torah said...
    first degree assault - the video is more informative

    Thanks. I hadn't watched it. I kind of figued that Ravens running back Ricky Williams had nothing to do with it.

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  6. Rebbi nachman of breslov said one need not be a breslover ( yet) but woe to those who are against breslov.

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  7. "Rebbi nachman of breslov said one need not be a breslover ( yet) but woe to those who are against breslov."

    Did Rabbi Nosson of Breslov firebomb someone?

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