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UES crane collapse case pre-trial proceedings to be public: judge

Pre-trial proceedings in the 2008 Upper East Side crane collapse manslaughter case will be held in open court, the judge has decided, according to the New York Post.

Concerns from prosecutors and victims’ families convinced Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Daniel Conviser to make hearing, crane company owner James Lomma’s hearing, on second-degree manslaughter charges, public, the Post said. The hearing is scheduled for tomorrow at 10 a.m.

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The collapse at the Azure, at 333 East 91st Street, at First Avenue, involved a crane owned by Lomma’s company, New York Crane and Equipment Corporation. The weld on Lomma’s company ‘s crane cracked on May 30, 2008, and killed operator, Donald Leo, and another construction worker, Ramadan Kurtaj in the resulting crash.

The pre-trial proceedings were originally planned to be off-the-record telephone conversations, the Post said. [Post]

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