Judge Keeps His Word to Immigrant Who Kept His (Published 2010)

Former Judge Michael A. Corriero, who sentenced Qing Hong Wu in 1996, joined a petition to have him pardoned. Credit...Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times The judge and the juvenile had grown up on the same mean streets, 40 years apart. And in fall 1996, they faced each other in a New York court where children are prosecuted as adults, but sentenced like candidates for redemption. The teenager, a