Judge Eugene H. Nickerson, who presided in the previous trials, did not set a sentencing date for Mr. Aleman.
Throughout the previous trials, defense attorneys have painted the picture of a police department where officers regularly violate general orders.
Mr. Allen testified in the previous trials that his thinking and memory remain unaffected, leaving only his speech patterns impaired.
Captain Nathan Huff, one of the prosecutors, noted, "The only difference between this trial and the previous trials is the discovery of this new DNA evidence".
The verdict was no surprise to observers, since most of the witnesses and evidence were the same as those in the previous trials, two of which ended in acquittals, and the third with a hung jury.
Allens' contention was that the evidence as to tendency and coincidence relating to the three deaths that was not admitted at the previous trials could now be regarded as "fresh" at any future trial.
But, given the outcomes of the previous trials, it seems more likely that Williams will acquit — that the attempt to find an individual responsible for collective negligence, for a slaying by increments, may fall short again.
In some ways the stakes seem much bigger than in the previous trials, as the conspiracy described in the indictments reaches into more than two dozen countries around the world.
As in the previous trials, defense lawyers for Mr. Turner, 48, of North Bergen, N.J., have focused attention on his long and tangled relationship as a paid informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In the previous trials, government lawyers contended that the men — Narseal Batiste, Patrick Abraham, Burson Augustine, Rotschild Augustine, Naudimar Herrera and Stanley G. Phanor — wanted to wage a "ground war" against American citizens and had pledged their loyalty for Islamic extremism to F.B.I. informants posing as members of Al Qaeda.
For these tests, we configured the source and destination to use either BPSK or QPSK on the same 48 (of 64) subcarriers used in the previous trials.
