ABC 7's Jeff Pegues speakes with attorney Gerard Marrone after he abruptly quit the defense team for confessed killer Levi Aron.
Video: After Quitting, Attorney Speaks
ABC 7’s Jeff Pegues speakes with attorney Gerard Marrone after he abruptly quit the defense team for confessed killer Levi Aron.
One of accused New York City child-killer Levi Aron’s lawyers has quit, saying he cannot stomach the brutal crime.
Gerard Marrone told the New York Daily News Thursday he resigned because of “the horrific way this boy [Leiby Kletzky] was killed.”
“I have three little boys,” he said. “You can’t look at your kids and then look at yourself in the mirror, knowing that a little boy, who’s close in age to my eldest son, was murdered so brutally.”
Aron, 35, who is charged with first-degree murder and faces life in prison without the possibility of parole under New York law if convicted, still has one attorney, Pierre Bazile.
A former federal prosecutor, Morris Fodeman, told the Daily News Aron could be eligible for the federal death penalty if he took 8-year-old Leiby across state lines.
Police said they believe Aron drove the boy to an upstate New York wedding, stopping on the way at a gas station on the Palisades Parkway in New Jersey.
U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, in the borough of Brooklyn, declined comment, but a source said her office “has no interest” in taking on the case.
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I don’t get this. He didn’t know about “the horrific way this boy [Leiby Kletzky] was killed” when he signed up? Everyone else did.
What caused him to get religion?
doesn-t sound right
Is it legal or even ethical for an attorney for a client to come out in public against his client?
insanity defense
Levi Aron is obviously mentally unstable. Obviously he has to be put away. But not out of revenge but rather for the safety of society.
Hopefully he will succeed in his insanity defense. He’s obviously insane. And contrary to popular belief if he’s not guilty by reason of insanity, he still spends the rest of his life behind bars…
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levi aron is false jew yemachshmoi
To #2
This is against the rules of ethical attorney practice and can result in this attorney being censured, suspended or disbarred. If a lawyer must withdraw from a case, they must endeavor to do so in a way that does not prejudice their client. The proper way to withdraw would have been without running to the press or speaking about how horrific his client’s crime is.