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Fmr. Lucchese Skipper Wins First Rd. Of Appeal
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01/24/24 02:14 PM
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January 25, 2024 — On Wednesday morning, New Jersey Supreme Court Judge Dina Vicari ordered an evidentiary hearing in an appeal plea filed by Lucchese mobster Marty Taccetta on his racketeering and murder conviction connected to the 1984 gangland slaying of Lucchese mob soldier Vincent (Jimmy Sinatra) Craparotta. Appellate attorneys for Taccetta claim prosecutorial misconduct based on allegations of lying government witnesses and hidden and doctored evidence. Taccetta was a high-ranking figure in the Lucchese’s New Jersey crew, at one time serving as a capo. He was first convicted at a 1993 state trial. His lawyers claim the whole case against him was manufactured on discredited testimony from star witnesses, including his one-time boss in the Jersey crew and the former underboss of the Philadelphia mafia, Philip (Crazy Phil) Leonetti, and trumped-up evidence like an alleged doctored record of a Taccetta dentist appointment at the time of the Craparotta murder. The motive, according to appellate counsel. was a vengeance plot related to a prior high-profile federal trial Taccetta and others were found not guilty at years earlier. An FBI 302 informant file filled out during Leonetti’s spring 1989 debriefing contradicts his testimony at Taccetta’s trial, according to Taccetta’s appeal, per court records. https://gangsterreport.com/breaking...tion-tossed-granted-evidentiary-hearing/
Last edited by RushStreet; 01/24/24 02:15 PM.
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