Barry Gibbs: "Don't You Remember Me?"
From yesterday's sentencing hearing of the two mob cops convicted of carrying out 8 murders for the mob while they were on the police force: Right after defendant Louis Eppolito used his right of allocution to proclaim his innocence and invite the victims' families to visit him in jail so he could prove it to them
It was at this point that without warning and certainly without permission, a large man wearing a seashell necklace suddenly stood up.
"Mr. Eppolito!" he yelled from the gallery. "Do you remember me?"
Apparently baffled, Mr. Eppolito said, "No."
"I'm the guy you put away for 19 years! I'm Barry Gibbs! You don't remember me? You don't remember what you did to me? To my family?"
The marshals quickly led the man outside, as the courtroom burst into applause.
Judge Jack Weinstein will impose a life sentence on the two crooked cops, assuming they don't win their motion for a new trial based on ineffective assistance of counsel at a June 23 hearing. The pair are claiming Bruce Cutler and Eddie Hayes were inadequate defenders. Eppolito's new lawyer is Joe Bondy.
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