| Man Given 20 Years For Crack
Is Denied Release From Butner Amid COVID
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 26 – In 2005 Henry Lopez
was sentenced to more than 300
months in jail for crack by
then Judge Richard Owen - the
case is so old, the links are
no longer live on PACER.
Jump cut to
June 26 when U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge P.
Kevin Castel held a proceeding
on Lopez' request to be
released from FCI Butner amid
COVID-19. Inner City Press
covered it.
Assistant US
Attorney Gentile told Judge
Castel that people are safer
in FCI Butner Medium II than
in New York City, particularly
in a half-way house.
It
was said that after Judge
Owen, Lopez got a "reduction"
to 240 months for 4.5 kilos of
crack. He is 39.
Judge
Castel politely as always said
that the required compelling
case had not been made. He
noted Lopez may be released to
a halfway house in August
2020. Judge Castel wished him
well.
The case is US v.
Lopez, 03-cr-1492 (Castel).
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