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| Inmate Sues Over NY Son of Sam Law |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 04/26/2002 |
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A black radical convicted in the 1981 killing of a police officer has sued the state of New York over a law that allows the victim's family to collect $15,000 he was awarded in a legal settlement. Abdul Majid's lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan challenges the constitutionality of a new provision of the state's Son of Sam law, named after the case of serial killer David Berkowitz, who was offered huge sums of money for the publishing rights to his story. The law originally allowed victims to recover gains from a convicted person's commission of a crime. But the state Legislature expanded it last year to allow the state Crime Victims Board to recover money and property received from any source. Majid, a former Black Liberation Army member, was known as Anthony LaBorde when he was sentenced in July 1986 to at least 33 years in prison for the ambush murder of Officer John Scarangella and attempted murder for wounding a second officer. Majid sought through his lawsuit to protect the proceeds of a 1999 lawsuit he filed against several state corrections officers. He alleged that his civil rights were violated when he was subjected to excessive force from three corrections officers as he returned to his cell from the prison's law library. He was scheduled to receive $15,000 six months after a settlement agreement reached in November was entered into court records on Dec. 27. He filed the lawsuit against the state Crime Victims Board after the money was forwarded to the board to be placed in an escrow account until the dead officer's family can be notified. |
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