| Man Released
On NYS Gun Charge Is Detained By SDNY
Judge Nathan Overruling Judge Fox
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 6 -- On January
22, Dante Stephens was before
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Alison J. Nathan charged
with possession of crack
cocaine and marijuana while
serving a three year period of
Supervised Release imposed by
Judge Nathan after conviction
for selling the same
substances.
Judge
Nathan on January 22 imposed a
22 month period of Supervised
Release.
In
February Dante Stephens was
captured on video with a
backpack later found to have a
loaded gun in it. On March 4
in the SDNY Magistrates Court,
Assistant US Attorney Jessica
Feinstein argued to Magistrate
Judge Kevin N. Fox that
Stephens should be
detained.
Stephens'
appointed lawyers proposed
that he remain detained until
he had two financially
responsible person co-sign his
bond, and that he subject to
home confinement. They
emphasized that New York State
had yet to bring an indictment
on the February gun charge and
had released Stephens on one
dollar bail.
Judge Fox ruled that Stephens
should be released later that
day, with one financially
responsible person to sign in
a week's time.
AUSA
Feinstein asked Judge Fox to
stay his ruling so that the US
Attorney could appeal to the
SDNY Part I
judge.
Fox did not
grant a stay, and Inner City
Press later heard that neither
the week's Part I Judge nor
Judge Nathan, who is
conducting an Iran sanctions
trial that Inner City Press is
also covering, could hear the
case that evening.
On March 5,
as Inner City Press reported
as picked up here, a
Coronavirus scare in Judge
Nathan's 9th floor courtroom
threw her schedule off.
So it was
on March 6 that Dante Stephens
appeared for the appeal, in a
bright green wind breaker. It
did not go well. Though he
walked in on his own to
Courtroom 110 which Judge
Nathan is using while hers is
cleaned, soon two US Marshals
moved into the gallery behind
him.
AUSA Feinstein said she
had spoken to the NYS
Assistant DA in the case and
they intend to move forward on
the gun charge. Stephens' long
time lawyer brought up the
disparity of UN briber Ng Lap
Seng getting bailed with a
private security guard. There
was talk of a cousin in Mount
Vernon he could stay with.
Judge
Nathan asked the Probation
Officer questions, about drug
treatment and the video of the
White Plains Road and 228th
Street bodega.
Then Judge
Nathan overrule Judge Fox, as
had happened before Judge
Denise Cote two hours before.
The Marshals moved in; the
green windbreaker and shoes
came off and handcuffs were
applied to Dante
Stephens.
The case is US v.
Stephens, 15-cr-95
(Nathan).
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