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Sixteen years ago, during the course of a six-month spree of fast-food robberies, Shawn Peace shot two people: a Popeyes employee in the hand and a cab driver multiple times, leaving the slumped-over man to bleed out in his car.
Then-Queens District Attorney Richard Brown called Peace “a menace to society.” Peace was convicted of second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault, first-degree robbery, and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and was sentenced to 110 years in prison…