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- <title>
- Dec. 17, 1990: Acquitted:John Vento
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 17, 1990 The Sleep Gap
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 113
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- <p> ACQUITTED. John Vento, 22, of murder and manslaughter in the
- 1989 death of a black youth in Bensonhurst, a mostly white
- neighborhood; in Brooklyn, N.Y. A member of the mob that cornered
- and killed Yusuf K. Hawkins, 16, Vento had agreed to be a witness
- in exchange for immunity. But he fled the city rather than
- testify against his friends, and later agreed to stand trial. He
- has already been convicted of unlawful imprisonment and menacing.</p>
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- </article>
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