Feds to Appeal Ruling for NYPD Cop-Killer

Federal prosecutors are appealing a judge's decision to vacate a death sentence for a convicted cop-killer.

District Court Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis last week ruled that Ronell Wilson, who was found guilty of killing NYPD Detectives Rodney J. Andrews and James V. Nemorin in 2003, was intellectually disabled, according to The Staten Island Advance.

The judge struck down the death-penalty sentence and instead imposed a series of consecutive life sentences without parole after citing that the U.S. Constitution "forbids the execution of intellectually disabled persons."

In his prior ruling in 2013, Garaufis determined that Wilson -- based on his IQ scores -- was not intellectually disabled.

The Brooklyn-based office of the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York filed a notice of appeal Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Adrews and Nemorin were slain by Wilson during an undercover gun buy-and-bust operation in Tompkinsville on March 10, 2003.