Judge throws out conviction of man found guilty of killing Run-DMC star

Run-DMC’s Jason Mizell, known as Jam Master Jay (G Paul Burnett/AP)

A US judge has voided the conviction of one of the two men found guilty of the 2002 killing of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay, ruling that there was not enough evidence that the man had a motive to kill the hip-hop luminary.

Nearly two years after a jury delivered its verdict, the decision came from the same Brooklyn federal judge who presided over the trial. In Friday’s ruling, US District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall granted Karl Jordan Jr an acquittal on the murder charges.