A federal judge in Brooklyn overturned the conviction of one of the two men found guilty of murdering Jason Mizell, also known as Jam Master Jay, the DJ behind the legendary Queens-based hip-hop group Run-DMC.
The ruling comes nearly two years after the same federal judge presided over a trial in which a jury found Karl Jordan Jr. guilty for his alleged involvement in Mizell’s 2002 murder. Mizell was Jordan’s godfather.
During the trial prosecutors argued that Mizell was killed over a drug dispute, after becoming a cocaine middleman when his musical career died down. They said that led to the shooting in front of multiple witnesses at his studio in Queens on Oct. 30, 2002…