PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release on July 22, 2005

Contact: William J. Smith (718) 556-7150

Statement of District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan, Jr. on the Decision of United States Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzalez to seek the Death Penalty in the Case of the United States v. Ronell Wilson

“I fully support Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez’s decision to allow United States Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf to seek the death penalty against Ronell Wilson. I believed, and my actions in seeking the death penalty in the State case indicated, that in this most heinous of crimes it was always appropriate to seek capital punishment. While the State case against Ronell Wilson remains open at this time my office’s capital team remains committed to assisting the U.S. Attorney’s office with the prosecution of their case.”

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