# Kenneth Shannon

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/kenneth-shannon/

A defendant in the 1987 Westies racketeering indictment who pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge; separately convicted in state court in 1989 of second-degree murder for driving Billie Bokun to and from the 1985 shooting of Michael Holly. His federal habeas petition was denied in 1997.

The membership sentence is a federal judge's summary of what was established at a state trial. It gives Shannon no position in the group, so no role is set here. The opinions' accounts of other shootings in which they name him are on the [1991 opinion's page](/items/courtlistener-us-v-coonan-938-f2d-1553/).

## Sources

- Shannon v. Artuz, 984 F. Supp. 807 (S.D.N.Y. 1997), CourtListener: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1401747/shannon-v-artuz/