BRONX MAN WHO SLAMMED PUPPY TO FLOOR, INJURING HER LEG SO
BADLY IT NEEDED AMPUTATION, SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR IN JAIL
Defendant Must Register as Animal Abuser
“Sally” Recovered from the Ordeal and Found a New Home
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Roberto Martinez, 25, of 946 Leggett Avenue,
was sentenced today to a year in jail by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Robert Neary.
Martinez pleaded guilty to Aggravated Cruelty to an Animal, a felony, on October 13, 2017.
Upon his plea, he was remanded and began serving his sentence. As part of the plea agreement,
he must register as an animal abuser in the state registry and is not permitted to own an
animal for five years.
BRONX MAN TO GET 15 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ATTACKING TWO
FEMALES HE KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS AND LEFT SEMI-NAKED
Defendant Pleaded Guilty to Attempted Assault and Attempted Robbery
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has pleaded
guilty to two 2016 attacks in which he knocked the victims unconscious and removed items of
their clothing. In one attack, he broke the jaw of a 15-year-old girl near Bronx Park
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Shaun Lewis, 28, of Lurting Avenue,
pleaded guilty today to Attempted Assault in the first-degree and Attempted Robbery in the
second-degree before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Ralph Fabrizio. He will be sentenced to 15
years in prison followed by 5 years post-release supervision on February 27, 2018. At the time
of the attacks, the defendant was on parole for a robbery in which he beat a woman and may
be sentenced to additional time for violating his parole terms.
BRONX DISTRICT ATTORNEY DARCEL D. CLARK ANNOUNCES SHE WILL
MOVE TO VACATE MURDER CONVICTION OF BRONX MAN
AND CONSENT TO HIS RELEASE AFTER 20 YEARS IN PRISON
Conviction Integrity Unit Re-Investigated 1996 Case,
Discovered Evidence and Determined That Defendant Did Not Receive Fair Trial
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that she will move to vacate the
conviction of a Bronx man in a 1996 murder, after a review of the case by the District
Attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit determined that the defendant did not receive a fair trial.
District Attorney Clark said, “Larry McKee is serving 24 years-to-life for murder, but the
Conviction Integrity Unit has uncovered potentially exculpatory evidence that was not provided
to the defense at the time of trial. Because of this, I will ask the Court on Monday, January 29,
2018, to vacate McKee’s conviction in the interest of justice so he can be freed as soon as
possible.
McKee, 46, was sentenced to 24 years-to-life in prison after a trial in Bronx Supreme
Court in 1997. He was convicted by a jury of second-degree Murder in the fatal shooting of 29-
year-old Theodore Vance on February 19, 1996, on 176th Street between Andrews and
Montgomery Avenues.
McKee’s attorney, Michael Talassazan, contacted the CIU six months ago, provided
some new evidence and asked the unit to review the case. Assistant District Attorney Risa
Gerson re-interviewed witnesses and examined thousands of pages of the trial file. Gerson
discovered grand jury testimony of a witness who had heard the victim’s last words, which
indicated “a Spanish guy.”
The evidence raised a question as to whether the shooter had been correctly identified
because McKee is black, and it should have been turned over to the defense. Once ADA Gerson
determined that the testimony had not been turned over to the defense, she gave it McKee’s
attorney.
