| In SDNY Virtual Mag Court
Defendant Bailed To Georgia But Case Not Yet
Wheeled Out
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 11 – Since March 2020
there have not been in-person
criminal presentments in the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York,
which Inner City Press
reported on hundreds of cases
in the Magistrates Court on
the fifth floor.
Instead,
presentment are by phone and
now video. But there is no
list, no way to know when they
happen.
On June 11 Inner
City Press searching for a
criminal proceeding before a
District Judge who does not
list his call-in numbers
called the CourtCall line -
and stumbled on a presentment.
But of who? Or whom?
The
defendant, whose name Inner
City Press could not catch and
is not yet listed in PACER,
was bailed to Georgia, seemly
by SDNY Magistrate Judge Debra
Freeman (the deputy was
"Aisha" Bams).
But then a
problem arose.
This was
proceeding by notice of intent
to proceed by Information.
So who was the
assigned District Judge?
The answer was,
or seemed to be, that it had
not yet been wheeled out.
Neither Federal
Defender Julia Gatto nor the
AUSA knew.
This is
all a work in progress, and
people are doing the best they
can. But a return to in-person
proceedings is much needed.
The case is...
well, we don't know yet. Watch
this site.
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