| In SDNY A Defendant Shot In
Front of Daughter in The Bronx Gets Six More
Months In Jail
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon,
Periscope
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 16 – Shawn Wilson was
released from Federal prison
on March 2, 2018. By September
17, 2018 he had been shot
three times in front of his
three year old daughter on
183rd Street and Davidson
Avenue in the Bronx.
While in
the hospital Wilson was
arrested on new drug charges,
and on May 16 he appeared
before U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
John F. Keenan
for sentencing
on his
Violation of
Supervised
Release.
Wilson spoke
for himself,
recounting
that Probation
barely helped
him, other
than with a
referral to
Odyssey House.
He was living
in Wards
Island Men's
Shelter with,
he said, a
"jail vibe."
He was
rejected for a
job at
Wal-Mart due
to his
background
history.
Keenan,
specifically
praising
Wilson's
lawyer Sean M.
Maher for his
sentencing
submission,
gave Wilson
six month
imprisonment
rather than
the eleven
months he said
he had
intended.
Compared to
for example
the Tekashi
6ix9ine
ongoing case,
there was
little
interest in
Wilson's hard
luck. His
video is a 24
second clip on
YouTube from
CBS local
news, calling
the place
where he was
shot
University
Avenue, here.
Back on May 9
when Fuguan Lovick appeared in
court shackled to plea guilty
in the Nine Trey Gangsta
Bloods case best known for the
involvement of rapper Tekashi
6ix 9ine a/k/a Daniel
Hernandez, it began as a
routine allocution.
But when Lovick,
also known as Fu Banga,
offered his own description of
what he did on April 21, 2018
at the Barclays Center in
Brooklyn, SDNY Judge Paul A.
Engelmayer did not accept
it.
Lovick said that
outside the door of a boxer, a
group ran at him; he drew a
gun and fired it into the air
to make them step
back.
Judge Engelmayer
said this allocution wouldn't
do, with its implication of
self defense and failure to
mention the Nine Trey Gangsta
Blood organization. He urged
Lovick, still in chains, to
spend ten minutes with his
defense lawyer Jeffrey G.
Pittell to discuss a prepared
allocation which would jibe
with counts six and seven of
the superseding indictment to
which he was ostensibly
pleading
guilty.
Pittell, with
whom Inner City Press spoke
just outside the courtroom,
had previously filed a motion
to suppress and to dismiss. He
had an interesting argument
that the New York State crime
of menacing - trying to cause
the fear of bodily harm -
would not fit even the
superseding lesser included
charge to which Lovick was
pleading guilty. Pittell told
Inner City Press this is an
issue of first
impression.
But as Judge
Engelmayer put it when after
two breaks he accepted
Lovick's guilty plea, lawyers
can always make arguments but
it was his view that there was
no real claim of self-defense
in this case. Pittell referred
to a video of the incident but
Judge Engelmayer said he had
not seen it. Venue was also
questioned; that too was
smoothed over.
As more and more
of the initial defendants in
the overall USA v. Jones
/ Tekashi 6ix 9ine case
plead guilty, to some the
remaining question is the
pleading-out of the
defendant(s) who are NOT
affiliated with the Nine Trey
Gangsta Bloods. Inner City
Press will continue to cover
this case. For now, a bit more
on Patreon, here.
For more on this case, including
the April 30, 2019 multiple defendant discovery
conference before Judge Engelmayer, click here.
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