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ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. David Paterson on Thursday commuted the sentence of a black man imprisoned for the racially charged shooting death of a white teenager on Long Island.
Paterson said the five months John Harris White has served was enough time for the emotion-fueled 2006 shooting death of Daniel Cicciaro, 17. White teenagers were feuding with White’s 19-year-old son when they went by the carload to their home in August 2006. White was convicted of manslaughter for shooting one of the teenagers at the foot of White’s driveway, in what he referred to as a lynch mob.
