On Monday, a federal appeals court upheld the convictions of two former New Orleans police officers for the deadly beating of a 48-year-old handyman. A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled there was sufficient evidence to support a jury’s April 2011 convictions of former officers Melvin Williams and Matthew Dean Moore.
At the time of the fatal encounter, Moore was a rookie and Williams, a 16-year department veteran, was Moore’s training officer. Prosecutors said Williams broke four of Raymond Robair’s ribs and crushed his spleen before the officers drove him to a hospital, where he died of substantial internal bleeding.
Williams was sentenced to more than 21 years in prison for fatally kicking Robair and beating him with a baton during an encounter in July of 2005. Moore, who wasn’t charged with having a part in Robair’s death, was sentenced to more than five years in prison for submitting a false report and thusly lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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