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Pleads To 5 Years Mandatory As Lawyer Says
No Cooperation Amid Others' Lawyer
Questions
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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EDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 22 – Hip hop artist
Fetty Wap, whose given name is
Willie Junior Maxwell II,
pleaded guilty on August 22 to
a superseding indictment on
which there is a five year
mandatory minimum.
The only
way out of a mandatory minimum
would be the "safety valve" -
not eligible, it seems clear -
or cooperating. But his lawyer
was quoted, "He is NOT
cooperating. I want that to be
very, very clear. This is a
standard plea."
The guilty
plea was taken by U.S.
Magistrate Judge Steven Locke
in federal court in Central
Islip. He did not make a
request to be released on
bond, which would have been
unlikely to be granted, and so
remains in
custody.
Previously in the same overall
indictement, co-defendants
Robert Leonardi pleaded guilty
to Count 1 and Anthony Cyntje
pleaded guilty to Counts 1 and
2. These pleas got much less
coverage, understandable,
given music and celebrity. But
what about this:
Howard
Davis is in the Metropolitan
Detention Center in Brooklyn
facing a November 30, 2022
sentencing. But he has
questions.
On August 22,
2022 U.S. District Court for
the Eastern District of New
York Judge Joan Azrack held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
Davis was produced late, even
to the virtual proceeding, due
to some problem with the "475"
process.
When he got on,
Judge Azrack said if Davis
continued to resist speaking
to Probation for the
Pre-Sentencing Report, she
might have to issue a force
order.
Davis
replied that he had questions
he'd been wanting to ask,
adding the lockdown in the MDC
ended only the day before.
Judge Azrack asked, What is
your question?
Davis asked
about his representation -
specifically, why he never got
a copy of the letter to the
Court by his former lawyer,
Christopher Joseph Cassar,
asking to withdraw from the
case.
The
letter was said to have been
cc-ed to Davis, but he says he
never got it, nor signed for
it as legal mail in the MDC.
He wanted to know why the
reasons for withdrawal had not
been put on the record.
Inner City
Press checked in CourtListener
and then PACER but as to this
letter, which in other cases
would be public unless a
motion to seal was approved,
was not available: "You do not
have permission to view this
document."
We aim to
have more on this.
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