NYC Man Gets Life Without Parole In 2009 Murder At Harvard
WOBURN (AP) - A New York City man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for fatally shooting a drug dealer inside a Harvard dormitory.
Jabrai (juh-BRY') Jordan Copney was sentenced hours after he was convicted Friday of first-degree murder in the 2009 shooting of Justin Cosby.
Copney was not a Harvard student, but was dating a woman who attended the Ivy League school. Cosby was a 21-year-old local drug dealer who lived a few blocks from the Harvard campus.
Prosecutors said Copney pretended to be a Harvard student who wanted to buy drugs from Cosby, then shot him inside Harvard's Kirkland House dorm when he refused to hand over $5,000 worth of marijuana.
Copney's attorney told jurors that two other men who participated in the robbery were liars who put the blame on Copney because prosecutors offered them plea deals.
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