FROM: HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: FEBRUARY 22, 2018
RE: PRESS RELEASE – RAYMOND MOORE SENTENCING
GANG MEMBER GETS 15 YEARS IN PRISON FOR HAVING LOADED GUN IN KINGSTON
32 year old Raymond Moore (aka “Nice”, “Face”), a Poughkeepsie bloods gang member was sentenced to 15 years in prison for illegally possessing a loaded 38 caliber firearm. The gun was used, by Moore, to injure a woman at 200 Fair Street in Kingston on June 18, 2016.
Moore has at least 20 arrests and 13 or more criminal convictions in Dutchess County in the last 12 years, including four felonies one of which involved his possession of a loaded 38 caliber hand gun during a chase with a Poughkeepsie Police Officer. The present case, his fifth felony conviction, is the result of a verdict by an Ulster County jury in October of last year. At trial the jury was not informed about his arrests and prior convictions.
Some of the evidence presented to the jury in the trial included letters written by Raymond Moore to witnesses and his friends trying to threaten, tamper, and intimidate witnesses whom he referred to as “rats”; he also offered to pay $1000 each to two witnesses for them to change their testimony.
Raymond Moore also tried to get a friend to call his previous lawyer with a false story, so that he would have the lawyer call this false witness in his behalf at trial; that false witness pleaded guilty last summer in Kingston City Court for Tampering with a Witness in behalf of Raymond Moore. In a letter to another friend in Poughkeepsie he said that he did not regret what he had done but wished he got away.
District Attorney Holley Carnright views Raymond Moore as a danger to the community and not capable of rehabilitation, and at sentencing, recommended the maximum sentence allowed by law. In agreeing to impose the maximum, Ulster County Court Judge, Donald Williams, commented that Mr. Moore has not shown any remorse for his actions and is a clear danger to the community. The judge also granted the DA’s request for an order of protection for the woman who was injured with the gun.
The case was investigated by Kingston Police Department with assistance from members of New York State Police in Kingston and the New York State Police Forensic Investigations Center.
Raymond Moore was represented in the trial and sentencing by Edward Bruno of Pine Bush.
The case was prosecuted by Sr. Assistant District Attorney Emmanuel Nneji.
