HARTFORD — A 25-year-old Hartford man who recently had a 100-year sentence set aside by the state Supreme Court has been convicted in another murder case.
The Hartford Courant reports that Ackeem Riley pleaded no contest Thursday to being an accessory to murder and guilty to being an accessory to first-degree assault in a 2006 shooting that left one teen dead and another paralyzed from the neck down.
Prosecutors say Riley fired a gun, but they don’t know if his shots were the ones that hit 15-year-old Kerry Foster and 14-year-old Cinque Sutherland.
The Connecticut Supreme Court in February overturned Riley’s 100-year sentence in a shooting that also occurred in 2006, when he was 17, ruling juveniles cannot be treated the same as adults when being sentenced for violent crimes.