| In MCC No Visitors or
Showers For 5 Days Navedo Tells SDNY Judge As
Pleads Guilty
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 3 -- During the guilty
plea of Christian Navedo on
March 3 to lesser included
offenses involving gun
possession and use in
connection with a conspiracy
to distribute heroin and
fentanyl, it emerged that he
and other in the Metropolitan
Correctional Center have had
not visitors, or hot food or
showers, for five
days.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Kevin N. Fox
asked Navedo if these
conditions impacted his
ability to understand the
proceedings and plead guilty
with a clear mind.
"You mean, does
it impact me?" Navedo asked.
His lawyer
whispered to him, and he
confirmed that his competence
to plea guilty was not
impacted.
The lack of
visitors in the MCC arose the
day before when Larry Ray
appeared before Judge Fox; his
Federal Defender said she had
been unable to show him the
government's video
evidence.
Navedo's lawyer
put into the record the MCC
conditions, likening them to
the conditions in the MDC in
Brooklyn which have given rise
in many cases to reduced
sentencing. Here, Navedo has
agreed to not appeal or
otherwise collaterally attack
any sentence below 327 months.
The case is US v. Navedo,
19-cr-259 (Fox /
Berman).
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