| US Attorney Seeks Blanket
Protective Orders Before SDNY Judges Gardephe
After Nathan
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Aug 28 – The US Attorney for
the Southern District of New
York has begun systematically
requesting or demanding
blanket protective orders, in
case from false complaints to
felon in possession of a
firearm and, as Inner City
Press will soon oppose, sex
trafficking.
In the
first case, Cortez Fowlkes is
charged with making false 911
calls claiming that people
were drowning in the Hudson
and Harlem rivers.
Then the U.S.
Attorney's Office sought a
protective order for the
discovery it would produce,
reported saying it did not
want to "see the information
on Twitter."
On August
19, U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Judge Alison Nathan held
a proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
Assistant U.S.
Attorney Mitzi S. Steiner told
Judge Nathan that the
discovery would show law
enforcement techniques -
nearly always the case - and
arguing that "finally, the
defendant files to articule
why public access to pre-trial
discovery is warranted in this
case."
But this reverses
the presumption of public and
press access, as this U.S.
Attorney's Office is doing or
colluding
through silence in doing more
and more.
Judge
Nathan rejected the
proposed protective order.
That case is US
v. Fowlkes, 20-cr-309 (Nathan)
On August
28 Judge Paul G. Gardephe
rejected a similar blanket
protective order in the felon
in possession prosecution US
v. Hoskins, 20-cr-399
(Gardephe). Judge Gardephe
said that redaction of such
information as Tax IDs would
be preferable. The case was
put back on for October 2.
He also noted
that he faces a similar
request for a blanket
protective order in US v.
Dejesus, et al., 20-cr-397
(Gardephe).
And Inner City
Press is aware of, and will be
opposing, a similar attempt to
go further and submit
discovery material into the
record before a judge in a sex
trafficking case while
withholding it in full from
the Press and public. Watch
this site.
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