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Kaiam Donovan Had Crack Trial Set For Jan
3 But Omicron Pushes It To Feb 9
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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EDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 27 – In the U.S. District
Court for the Eastern District
of New York on the morning of
December 29, a pre-trial
conference was held by Judge
Pamela K. Chen in the case of
Kaiam Donovan. It was held
with a public call-in line;
Inner City Press called in.
Donovan is charged
with one count of conspiring
to distribute and possess with
intent to distribute cocaine
base and one count of
distributing and possessing
with to distribute cocaine
base, in violation of 21
U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 846.
His trial
was to start on January 3 -
but Judge Chen said that will
not be possible, given COVID /
Omicron among the lawyers and
investigators on the case.
They asked whether EDNY's
quarantine guidance is five
days; an alternate date of
February 9 was set.
[In SDNY,
Inner City Press has learned
the the trial that was set for
jury selection on Monday,
January 3 has been canceled
due to COVID but that the
January 4 trial, before Judge
Denise L. Cote, is still set
to go. But see Inner City
Press docket-diving coverage,
here].
The EDNY case is
US v. Donovan,
20-cr-374, EDNY (Chen).
There
is also a
request by
Donovan to go
pro-se
(represent
himself), or
partially so
with two
shadow
counsel.Watch
this site.
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