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More than three years after he withheld evidence in a Flanders murder case, former Suffolk prosecutor is suspended
Former assistant district attorney Glenn Kurtzrock speaks with reporters in 2014. (Credit: Joseph D. Sullivan/ Newsday)
A former Suffolk County homicide prosecutor has been suspended from practicing law after he failed to turn over exculpatory evidence in a 2017 trial resulting from the murder of a Riverhead man.
Glenn Kurtzrock, who resigned from the District Attorney’s office after a defense attorney in the trial of Messiah Booker revealed the prosecutor withheld notes that might have implicated other suspects in the 2013 murder of 21-year-old Demitri Hampton, will be prevented from practicing law for two years. The Dec. 30 appellate court decision followed a petition filed by a grievance committee overseeing attorney complaints. ....

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