Brooklyn murder convict loses court battle to have case tossed
August 29, 2019
A Brooklyn man accused of a decades-old murder lost a court battle to get his conviction overturned on Thursday — despite the fact that disgraced former detective Louis Scarcella and his partner Stephen Chmil worked the case. Nelson Cruz was convicted as a teenager of shooting a man named Trevor Vieira in East New York back in 1998. His lawyers
