| Accused Oxy Nurse Was Freed
in SDNY Mag Court Now Gets Another Change of
Counsel
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 12 – Back on July 8, the
US Attorney's Office for the
SDNY announced that "Audrey
Strauss, the Acting United
States Attorney for the
Southern District of New
York... announced today the
unsealing of a criminal
Complaint in Manhattan federal
court charging PURIFICACION
CRISTOBAL, a nurse
practitioner who operated a
medical clinic in the Bronx,
New York, with illegally
distributing large quantities
of oxycodone. CRISTOBAL
was taken into custody this
morning and is expected to be
presented before Magistrate
Judge Sarah Netburn later
today."
Inner City
Press, which covers the SDNY,
immediately called in to the
CourtCall line since the
Magistrates Court has been
closed for months. But the
case that was on was not on
Cristobal / Oxy.
First it
was a Mr. Watson, no press
release by SDNY, who wanted to
be released on bond.
Denied.
Then
it was Mr. Scott, "in the
courthouse," also
detained.
Finally past 6:30 pm on the
same line, oxy nurse Cristobal
was presented. A bail package
had been agreed to, and her
relative was outside the
courthouse to drive her
home. It may be
the difference between violent
crime and non violent crime.
But
Inner City Press asked, even
then, why would the SDNY US
Attorney's Office put out a
press release about a
defendant they were agreeing
to free, while not putting out
anything on two other
defendants they managed to
detain?
On October
28 Purification Cristobal
appeared before the assigned
District Judge Katharine Polk
Failla for a change of
counsel. Peter E. Brill has
discovered a conflict of
interest, and said that "Dr.
Cristobal has retained Julie
Rendelman." That change of
counsel was effectuated.
On March
12, another change of counsel.
The incoming counsel said his
client is intelligent and
needs a lot of attention; she
complained that one attorney
only met her in a park. He
started talking fees and Judge
Failla said, politely but
firmly, that was an issue she
would not get into.
How many
changes of counsel are
permissible? Clearly, it's
case by case.
This case is now US v.
Cristobal, 20-cr-463 (Failla).
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