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SDNY Murky Mag Court Judge
Netburn Asks About Guyana
Suggests Youth Program
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Scoop
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 3 – While
many even most
cases in the
Magistrates
Court of the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York are
sealed or have
case numbers
given only
later, on September
3
Magistrate
Judge Sarah
Netburn
herself
expressed
concern about
unanswered
questions
about a defendant
whose name
appeared to be
Mr Foreman, a
citizen of
Guyana and
also perhaps
of the United
States, either
living with
his mother or
not. He is
charged with
wire fraud and
aggrevated
identity
theft.
Given
all these
uncertainties,
Judge Netburn
said no
release until
conditions
met. She also
suggested that
his appointed
lawyer look
into the Young
Adult
Opportunity
Program she
runs along
with SDNY
District Judge
Ronnie Abrams.
Later on
September 3,
Inner City
Press did look
into the
program.
Back on
August 30
Magistrate
Judge Parker was
reading out
the bond
conditions for
a defendant
called Soto
when suddenly
the government
and Federal
Defender
Christopher
Flood asked
for a
whispered
sidebar.
There
was no court
reporter, and
Inner City
Press the only
media in the
Mag court
could not
hear. Suddenly
the bail deal
was off, and
the bond
proceeding
continued
until
September 5 in
front of Judge
Parker. Soto
is charged
with selling
guns, and said
he planned to
work for
Amazon while
he said being
already
employed as a
teachers aid.
Was this what
the whispering
was about?
Murky mag
court indeed.
Even in
the Mag court,
case law
requires that
there be one
the record
findings about
the need to
defeat the
presumption of
press and
public access
to all facets
of such
proceedings.
Inner City
Press will
have more on
this.
Earlier
in the week
affable Judge
Parker
instructed a
defendant
named Mr.
Patterson who
was being released
to stay away
from the Gun
Hill Road area
in The Bronx.
The
scope of that
neighborhood
was not
defined; his
assigned CJA
lawyer as
we've noted
before is at
the same time
representing
the government
in a criminal
contempt case.
Inner City
Press will
have more on
this.
Inner City Press
will continue to cover this
and other SDNY and 2nd Circuit
cases - watch this site, and there is
more on
Patreon, here.
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