A suspect in the slaying of hip-hop legend Jam Master Jay was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years in prison for a spree of robberies.
Federal prosecutors wanted the judge to slam Ronald (Tinard) Washington with a more severe sentence by factoring in the unsolved murder of the Run-DMC rapper, as well as a previous killing Washington allegedly committed in 1995.
Brooklyn Federal Judge Nina Gershon declined to consider the murders in her decision and stuck to the sentence recommended by federal guidelines.
"One might think if it was such an overwhelming [murder] case, someone would have prosecuted him, instead of hanging a murder on a string of robberies with a BBgun," Gershon said.
Jam Master Jay, whose real name was Jason Mizell, was shot in his Hollis, Queens, music studio on Oct. 30, 2002.
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