Ex-Detectives May Go Free in Mob Case – New York Times: “When Louis J. Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa appear in court today to ask a judge for bail, a pair of questions will be buzzing in the air.
The first is fairly simple: Will these two retired detectives, defendants in the so-called Mafia Cops corruption case, actually go free?
The second is more complex: How is it possible that — after an indictment, a monthlong federal trial, a jury verdict that determined they had murdered for the mob and life sentences for both — there is even a chance that they could be released?”