| US Says Malik Hawkins in
Wheelchair Should Remain in MDC Citing Bit
Ring Finger
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Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 3 – When Malik Hawkins
was brought into Federal
Magistrates Court on guns and
drugs charges back on January
24, Assistant US Attorney
Louis Pellegrino opposed him
being released on bail citing
a risk of flight.
Malik
Hawkins was in a wheelchair,
and has been since 2011 when
he was shot and paraylzed from
the waist down.
AUSA Pellegrino acknowledged
that leaving the country could
be a challenge for Hawkins,
but noted that some of his
co-defendants has fled to
Vermont or "down South."
He
alluded to a social media post
on Instagram in which, he
said, Malik Hawkins bragged
about police who searched him
not finding what he had on him
- by implication, a
firearm.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Chief Magistrate Judge Gabriel
W. Gorenstein, after
conferring at sidebar with
Pre-Trial Services, issued his
ruling. He said but for the
defendant's physical
condition, he would detain
him.
Judge
Gorenstein ordered that
Hawkins be released on $50,000
bond, with a GPS location
monitoring bracelet and his
original wheelchair.
But
Hawkins was arrested on
February 21 after allegedly
biting his girlfriend's ring
finger. On March 9 he came to
the SDNY for a bail revocation
hearing and was found with
marijuana and a small
razorblade like knife. He has
been in the MDC since.
On April 3
he was arguing again for
release, citing Coronavirus.
Judge Andrew L. Carter to whom
the case has been assigned
said despite his wheelchair -
and now bedsores - Hawkins is
obviously able to move around.
He signed a medical order but
no more. Hawkins remains
detained. The case is US v.
Hawkins, 19-cr-846
(Carter).
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