Williams Lawyers Resist Retrial ; File Brief Saying New Effort to Convict Would Amount to Double Jeopardy

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Attorneys for Jayson Williams want a Superior Court judge to dismiss a reckless manslaughter charge against the former New Jersey Nets star, declaring in their brief that retrying Williams on that charge would constitute double jeopardy.

Williams, 36, was found not guilty in April of aggravated manslaughter and two other charges that resulted from the 2002 shooting death of a limousine driver, Costas "Gus" Christofi, at Williams' Hunterdon County estate. He was convicted on four counts of trying to cover up the circumstances of Christofi's death, with the jury hung 8-4 for acquittal on the reckless manslaughter count.

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Williams Lawyers Resist Retrial ; File Brief Saying New Effort to Convict Would Amount to Double Jeopardy

Hunterdon County prosecutors are scheduled to begin a retrial on that count in...

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