| Sidney
Scales To Get Jury Data Before Trial
Severed From Ernest Horge in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Song
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 14 – Defendant Sidney
Scales is facing trial this
month, and now gets data on
the jury venire. His
former co-defendant Ernest
Horge back on February 27,
2020 said in open court that
it is unfair he is in the same
case as Scales, charged with
capital murder.
On November 11,
2020, Veterans Day, the US
Attorney's Office announced a
superseding indictment that
formally charges Scales with
murder, and keeps Horge linked
to him: "In the Superseding
Indictment, SCALES is charged
with causing another person to
shoot at rival drug dealers on
June 9, 2017, in the vicinity
of 1135 East Tremont Avenue in
the Bronx, New York, causing
the death of Joshua
Lopez. SCALES and HORGE
are also charged in the
Superseding Indictment with
engaging in multiple specific
drug sales between November
2018 and February 2019, in
addition to the narcotics
conspiracy charged in the
initial indictment." The case
was reassigned to Judge Jed S.
Rakoff, the docket said.
Now in July
Judge Rakoff has ordered:
"ORDER as to Sydney Scales: IT
IS HEREBY ORDERED that the
Jury Administratorfor the
Southern District of New York
is authorized and directed to
produce the following records
to defense counsel, Justine
Harris, Michael Tremonte, and
Elizabeth Janszky, on or
before July 16, 2021: (a) A
list of all the individuals
who received a summons to
appear for jury services at
the Southern District of New
York on July 20, 2021 (the
"July 20 potential jurors"),
including each individual's
demographic information, such
as age, race, and gender; (b)
A copy of the summons received
by the July 20 jurors,
including any additional
instructions, such as the
Southern District of New
York's "Supplemental Juror
Questionnaire" 1; (c) Records
of the results of the phone
screening described in the
Supplemental Juror
Questionnaire, including each
potential juror's answers to
Questions 1 through 9, and
whether each potential juror's
service was excused or
postponed." Watch this site.
The case is US v.
Scales, 19-cr-96
(Rakoff).
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