Amid Bronx Drug Guilty Plea
How To Say Casilla Debated Before SDNY Judge
Stein
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 30 – Raymer Casilla a/k/a
Ray Savage was indicted as
part of a narcotics conspiracy
in The Bronx.
On
September 30, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Sidney H. Stein held a change
of plea proceeding. Inner City
Press covered it.
After
retiring several times to a
separately virtual room,
Casilla emerged and allocuted
to both possessing and having
the intent to
distribute.
Judge
Stein remarked that while he
had been using the Spanish
pronunciation Cas-ee-ya, the
CJA defense lawyer Anglicized
it to Cas-ill-a. He asked,
Which do you
prefer?
Either one is OK,
the defendant said. His
sentencing was set for January
5, 2021.
The case is US v.
Casilla, 19-cr-795 (Stein)
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