Article: Defense says Antar Bey was assassinated

OAKLAND -- Killing the leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery is like killing the godfather of an organized crime family, defense attorney Leonard Ulfelder said Tuesday as he wrapped up his closing arguments suggesting the 2005 killing of bakery leader Antar Bey was an assassination -- not a failed carjacking as the prosecution has said.

"If you are going to carjack someone, you don't carjack the leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery," Ulfelder said. "That's like carjacking Tony Soprano in New Jersey.'"

Saving his long-held theory for last, Ulfelder spent the last moments of his closing arguments suggesting an alternative motive was involved in the slaying. It was not a poorly planned carjacking, ...

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