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Man Poised To Withdrew 2002 Guilty Plea As
Error Coram Nobis Before SDNY Judge
Gorenstein
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 20 – An Italian man
who pleaded
guilty to
possession of
GHB and GHL in
2002 has
asked eighteen years
later to
withdraw his guilty
plea on August
21 before U.S.
District Court
for the Southern
District of
New York Magistrate Judge
Gabriel W. Gorenstein.
It is
called the
writ of error
coram nobis,
and Judge
Gorenstein has
signaled he
will grant it.
In a hearing
on the matter
Judge Gorenstein
said, "I'm not
adverse to
doing something
that's within
the bounds
of the law. So
if you can put
that together
I'll look at
it." The case
is US v.
Marco Pievani,
02-cr-389
(GWG).
The 2002
guilty plea
has left
Pievani
vulnerable to
deportation,
something that
happens to
less affluent,
or less well
represented,
defendants
every day in
the SDNY.
Represented by
Ellen M.
Murphy of the
Orrick law
firm, Pievani
now has
a hearing
scheduled for
August 21,
even as Judge
Gorenstein
is presiding
over the SDNY
Magistrates
Court.
While
many even most
cases in the
Magistrates
Court of the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York are
sealed or have
case numbers
given only
later, on August
20
before
Magistrate
Judge Gabriel
W. Gorenstein
a man was
presented and
released
with no case
number being
given.
His name
was pronounced
Christopher
Ansa,
charged with
among other
things
exporting
stolen motor
vehicles.
The Assistant US
Attorney said
he had a
passport from
Ghana
and asked for
location
monitoring.
Judge
Gorenstein
said the US
had not met
its burden and
said he gave
then ten to fifteen
minutes to
come to an
agreement.
Inner
City Press
stepped out of
the Magistrates
Courtroom to
try to look
into the case.
Going back in
10 minutes
later it was
all over - Mr
Ansa still in
a flannel
shirt was
being
released. In
the front
Judge
Gorenstein was
wheeling out a
case, to Judge
Engelmayer.
For this one,
the spelling
was given: US
v. Michael
Massaro. Judge
Gorenstein
asked the
after-hours
Court Security
Officer if he
knew how to
turn off the
lights,
because he and
his Deputy
were leaving.
Lights Out.
On
August 14
before
Magistrate
Judge Henry
Pitman a man
with a
Violation of
Supervised Release
from 2008,
based on a
case from
2002, was
brought in
shackled.
His
name is Cesar
Turbides and
Inner City Press
finds in the
file his 2017
request to
SDNY Judge
Paul G.
Gardephe, to
whom the case
was
reassigned, to
terminate his
probation
which barred
him from work
programs in
jail in
Florida.
Judge
Gardephe
denied the
application,
and now has
set a status
conference for
next week for
the detained
Turbides.
Inner City
Press, the
only media in
the Mag Court
for this on
August 14,
will continue
to follow this
and other
cases.
On August
12 Juan
Effren Paulino
was remanded
for illegal
re-entry to
the Metropolitan
Correctional
Center where
Jeffrey
Epstein was
found dead on
August 10.
Even hours
after the
remand
Paulino's case
remained
"sealed" on
PACER. But
during the
short
proceeding,
with Inner
City Press the
only media in
the Mag Court,
it was said
Paulino was
charged with
narcotics in
2010 and
deported,
re-entered and
was charged
with another
felony in
2017. He's set
to appear
before
District Judge
Denise Cote on
August 13. So
why is the
case still
sealed?
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