Man Gets New Hearing as Transcripts Show Judge Complained When DA Questioned Why Black Potential Jurors Were Dismissed: ‘No Reason for Starting This Black Thing’:
A Staten Island, New York, man has been granted a new hearing, a state Appellate Division panel announced on July 14. Wesley Brissett, 34, was convicted five years ago of criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree under Richmond County Supreme Court Justice William E. Garnett. But an appeals panel ordered that Brissett receive…