| Burgos Flashed Gun in The
Bronx Then
Denied It In Affidavit So Gets 36 Months
Covered Live
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 21 -- Ariel Burgos was
freed on bail on gun charges
on July 16, 2018, by
Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman
of the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York.
The gun incident, Burgos'
third or fourth, had taken
place on June 17, 2018 in the
Clason Point housing project,
when a woman called 911 that
Burgos was "brandishing a
firearm and threatening her
family member." Docket 46 at
2.
Burgos represented by 149th
Street lawyer Jonathan Sussman
moved to suppress the weapon,
with a sworn affidavit stating
that "I was not carrying nor
brandishing nor possessing a
firearm." Then he pleaded
guilty.
On February 21,
2020, Burgos appeared for
sentencing before SDNY
District Judge Ronny Abrams.
During the proceeding, at
which Inner City Press was the
only media present, Burgos'
fiancee spoke movingly about
how much she loves him.
Sussman said the quoted
portion of the affidavit was
his fault.
On a guideline of 46 to 57
months, Judge Abram after a
break imposed a sentence of 36
months. She noted the
defendant's history, but also
recent moves to progress with
a GED and a job. Her ruling
seeming heartfelt, and there
has been no objection to the two
tweets
reporting it, unlike other in
40 Foley who ordered it to
cease, still unaddressed.
Burgos' fiancee had strikingly
said he'd been in danger as a
"light skinned man" in The
Bronx, and that he was better
off now on the Lower East
Side. She said she didn't want
to see him "caged with
animals," since he was not an
animal. But who is? The case
is US v Burgos, 18-cr-570
(Abrams).
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