| Man Released
On $1 Bail On NYS Gun Charge Is Released
In SDNY On Own Signature No Stay
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 4 -- 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.
Dante Stephens
signed his own bond and left
the courthouse. The case is US
v. Stephens, 15-cr-95 (Nathan
/ Fox).
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