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Wait is over: '71 Stony Brook cop shooter sentenced

More than three decades after shooting a Stony Brook University police officer, Frank Nelson was sentenced Tuesday to one to three years in prison for the crime. Officer Charles Cali remembers patrolling

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Apr 10, 2007, 7:47 PM

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