| Illegal Reentry Defendant
Cites Chinese COVID Cases and Gets Release
Including On VOSR
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 8 – Ramon Mendez-Urena has
been in the MCC prison since
December 2019 on an Illegal
Reentry charge and a separate
Violation of Supervised
Release. On May 8 through
Federal Defenders he sought
release due to the COVID-19
pandemic.
The
Federal Defenders' motion
noted that "in China,
officials confirmed 500 cases
of coronavirus in prisons."
It's unclear if that includes
the "re-education camps" for
Uighurs in Xinjiang.
It cited
release decisions by U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judges Ramos, Stein, Rakoff,
Daniels and Chief Judge
McMahon in US v. Hudson,
19-cr-496.
In this
case SDNY Judge Analisa
Torres, saying she had
conferred prior to the hearing
which Inner City Press covered
with Judge Paul A. Engelmayer,
ordered Mendez-Urena released
as not a danger to the
community nor a risk of
flight. The case is US v.
Mendez-Urena, 20-cr-65
(Torres).
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