# Murder of Chaskel Werzberger

Overturned · 1990

On February 8, 1990, Chaskel Werzberger, a 56-year-old rabbi, was shot and killed in Brooklyn, New York. David Ranta was wrongfully convicted of the murder, and served 23 years in prison before being released in 2013.

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=81640987
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/murder-of-chaskel-werzberger-w81640987

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1. Wikipedia record (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=81640987


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