Article: MURDER SUSPECT PLEADS GUILTY TO LESSER CHARGE

COLLEEN MANCINO, Staff Writer
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
06-01-1995
MURDER SUSPECT PLEADS GUILTY TO LESSER CHARGE
By COLLEEN MANCINO, Staff Writer
Date: 06-01-1995, Thursday
Section: NEWS
Edition: 2 Star P

Ivan Sanchez gestured to an obviously flawed smile when he admitted
to police in 1987 that he killed Robert Merkerson outside a Passaic bar
in retribution for knocking out his tooth a few days earlier.

But when Sanchez got to court two years later, he was not only shy
a tooth, his memory seemed to have disappeared, too. He pleaded not
guilty -- even though authorities had a confession that helped them win a
conviction, which was later overturned on a technicality.

On Wednesday, less ...

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