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Man seeks to be freed after his conviction was tossed in Jam Master Jay murder case| India News

Man seeks to be freed after his conviction was tossed in Jam Master Jay murder case| India News

NEW YORK — A man whose conviction was recently thrown out in the killing of hip-hop luminary Jam Master Jay is asking to go free on a $1 million bond while prosecutors appeal, and he continues facing unrelated drug charges. Man seeks to be freed after his conviction was tossed in Jam Master Jay murder case Since a judge scrapped Karl Jordan Jr.’s murder conviction in the death of the Run-DMC turntable ace, “there are seismic changes in circumstances warranting Mr. Jordan’s release,” his attorneys, led by John Diaz, wrote in a court filing Friday. Prosecutors declined to comment. There’s no date yet for a hearing on Jordan’s bond proposal, which includes electronic monitoring. Jordan and co-defendant Ronald Washington were convicted in 2024 of the killing, which stunned the music world and stymied authorities for nearly two decades. Then U.S. District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall ruled on Dec. 19 that there wasn’t enough evidence to support Jordan’s federal murder conviction. She overturned the jury’s verdict against Jordan and acquitted him, while upholding Washington’s conviction. Jam …

Judge nixes conviction of one of two men found guilty of killing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay

Judge nixes conviction of one of two men found guilty of killing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay

Published on: Dec 20, 2025 01:55 am IST Judge nixes conviction of one of two men found guilty of killing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay NEW YORK — A judge Friday voided the conviction of one of the two men found guilty of the 2002 killing of Run-D.M.C. star Jam Master Jay, ruling that there wasn’t enough evidence that the man had a motive to kill the hip-hop luminary. Judge nixes conviction of one of two men found guilty of killing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay Nearly two years after a jury delivered its verdict, the decision came from the same Brooklyn federal judge who presided over the trial. In Friday’s ruling, U.S. District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall granted Karl Jordan Jr. an acquittal on the murder charges. An eyewitness testified that he saw Jordan shoot the pioneering DJ — his own godfather — in his Queens recording studio on Oct. 30, 2002. But Jordan’s lawyers had argued that the evidence didn’t support prosecutors’ claims that he killed Jam Master Jay, born Jason Mizell, as revenge for …