http://www.kansas.com/mld/observer/l...ly/6894457.htm
Crystaldawn, I watched the Court TV coverage of the trial also. It was eery to me because D'Antonio is the first person on Unsolved Mysteries who I have seen in person. I used to work as a sportsbook supervisor in downtown Las Vegas, and D'Antonio was a downtown pit boss at the time of his arrest last year. We never had any interraction, but I definitely remember him from my treks to the other nearby casinos.
The trial revealed that Kevin Hughes was a gutsy and principled young man who was fighting the corruption of the charts. D'Antonio's primary defense seemed to be that the original identification of the killer was of a black man, and D'Antonio is white, but the prosecution claimed the killer was wearing a ski mask and dark clothes, confusing the people who watched the killer flee.