
It's official. Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff will not be sentenced to death. After days of testimony from the victim's families and character witnesses, the jury has decided that Supreme should spend life in prison.
Supreme McGriff, the man who founded the notorious early-80's drug crew, The Supreme Team, will be spending the rest of his life behind bars for conspiring to murder aspiring Queens rapper E-Money Bags and a former associate Troy Singleton. McGriff's life sentence came today on the heels of the death sentence that was given to cop killer Ronnell Wilson in separate federal death penalty case.
McGriff was at the center of the Murder Inc. money laundering trial in 2005, alongside Irv and Chris "Gotti" Lorenzo, that played out last year in the headlines. They were acquitted of those charges.
Weeks ago, U.S. District Judge Frederic Block influenced the prosecution to phone the attorney general in Washington, D.C. to have the death penalty charges removed from the case. Block determined that Supreme did not warrant a death sentence after hearing both the proscecution and the defense' summations.
"There's just no chance that 12 jurors will vote for the death penalty in this case, and I think it is good for us to save money, if we can do that and judicial resources," Judge Block said, according to the Associated Press.
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