An ex-Bay Shore man who served prison time for murder in a 2004 slaying linked to the collection of a gambling debt pleaded guilty to manslaughter Tuesday after a federal appellate court threw out his original conviction.
Family members of victim Bobby Calabrese were in Nassau County Court as Mark Orlando, 50, admitted during a virtual appearance from jail that he took part in the 24-year-old Long Beach mans killing. It happened on a small side street in Island Park on Dec. 3, 2004.
A Nassau jury had convicted Orlando of second-degree murder in 2005 and he was serving 25 years to life in prison before a successful federal appeal. In 2019, a federal court ruled Orlando had been denied his constitutional right to confront an accuser in co…
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