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January 28, 2011

Jury Renders Verdict in Penn. Cover-up of Immigrant Beating Death 
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A federal jury has delivered a mixed verdict in the trial of three
former Pennsylvania police officers accused of covering up the fatal
beating of a Mexican immigrant. The victim, Luis Ramirez, was brutally
beaten to death in July 2008 by a group of white teenagers yelling
racial slurs in the town of Shenandoah. The three police officers were
accused of several acts, including writing false reports after hearing
information implicating the teenage attackers. On Thursday, Shenandoah's
former police chief, Matthew Nestor, was found guilty of falsifying
records, a conviction that could bring him up to 20 years in prison.
Nestor was acquitted on a charge of conspiracy. The second former
officer, William Moyer, faces up to five years in prison after being
convicted of lying to the FBI, but acquitted on all other counts. And
the third officer, Jason Hayes, was cleared of all charges.



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