| Before Sentencing 6ix9ine
SDNY Judge Engelmayer Gives Young 20 Years For
Shooting Snow
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 2 – Two
weeks before
sentencing
cooperator
Tekashi
6ix9ine, on
December 2
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Paul A.
Engelmayer
sentenced
co-defendant
Aaron Young to
240 months or
20 years.
Young could
have faced
thirty years
to life but
received a
plea agreement
capping his
sentence at
twenty years.
Judge
Engelmayer did
not further
reduce the
sentence,
citing Young's
violence and
drug dealing.
Assistant US Attorney Michael
Longyear pointed to the volume
of drugs, 80 kilos, that
cooperator Kristian Cruz
implicated Young in, and to
the shooting of Snow. From the
US sentencing submission:
"on January 19,
2018 the defendant and Cruz
met another Nine Trey member,
known as 'Snow,' at a bar in
Brooklyn. After Cruz left the
bar, the defendant [Aaron
Young] shot Snow in the back
of the neck at near
point-blank range.
Miraculously, Snow survived
the shooting."
Aaron
Young's lawyer Aaron Mysliwiec
on the other hand argued that
Jones was born addicted to
crack and has an IQ below 70.
Social
worker Shreya Mandel's
mitigation report has been
filed only under seal, at
least for now. But Judge
Engelmayer cited it in open
court, saying that Young has
been asked for drug money by
his mother, and locked in
rooms for long periods of time
while his parents took drugs.
On the
other hand Judge Engelmayer
noted that Young's near murder
of Snow took place in his 30s,
not as a young man. He said
that Young's violence was
worse than that of
co-defendants Kifano Jordan
and Jamel Jones and so, with
regret, he imposed the twenty
year sentence.
Inner City Press live-tweeted
Aaron Young's sentencing and
will similarly live-tweet that
of 6ix9ine on December 18,
this sentencing of Aaron
Young. Watch this site and
this twitter feed @InnerCityPress.
The case is US
v. Jones, 18-cr-834
(Engelmayer).
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