Prosecutor’s pop-culture reference causes stir at Syracuse murder trial: Did it go too far?

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Kimberly Gillard, the mother of an 18-year-old shot and killed in McKinley Park, releases balloons at her son's vigil. Kimberly, center, asked for no one to retaliate for her son's murder.

Syracuse, NY -- “A tale as old as West Side Story.”

That’s how Onondaga County prosecutor Melinda McGunnigle began her opening statement Thursday morning in the murder trial against Amir Bordies and James Everson.

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