An appeals court has upheld the murder conviction and 75-year sentence given to Harlem rapper Max B for his role in a deadly 2006 robbery at a Fort Lee hotel. Max B, now 34, was convicted in 2009 after a jury found that he had dispatched Leerdam, his stepbrother, and his girlfriend Gina Conway to a Holiday Inn on Route 4 to rob two men, Allan Plowden and David Taylor. During the attempted robbery, Leerdam shot Taylor, killing him.
