| On Gun Charges Perkins Got
New Judge And Now Pleads Guilty With Rhyming
Poetry Cited
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 22 – Shaquille Perkins
faces trial on felon in
possession of a firearm
charges. But not so fast.
On August 11 U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge William H. Pauley III
held a proceeding. Inner City
Press covered it.
First,
Judge Pauley asked Perkins or
rather his Federal Defender
about alleged violations of
supervised release including
unscheduled stops at 803
Crotona Park North in The
Bronx. "What's the attraction
to that building?" Judge
Pauley asked.
There was
no real answer, other that it
is on the route to treatment.
Judge Pauley delivered an
admonition about address and
about Fordham Road, then asked
about the trial
date.
He
explained that an October jury
trial date was unlikely and
proposed November 16 or
November 30. He said space
even in the large courtrooms
will be limited and might
require an overflow room with
video.
Federal
Defenders asked for time to
confer with Perkins and that
they would then e-mail Judge
Pauley's deputy or clerk.
On
September 17, the case was
transferred to SDNY Judge Jed
S. Rakoff, who on October 8
scheduled a proceeding which
Inner City Press also covered.
The
Assistant US Attorney
announced that they had found
that a witness in the case had
been represented previously by
Federal Defenders.
Judge
Rakoff did not seem pleased.
But he signed an order
removing Federal Defenders
from the case and assigning
Perkins a new CJA lawyer, Inga
L. Parsons.
On October 16 Parsons
appeared again, by phone,
urging with the consent of the
AUSA a modification of
conditions of release to allow
going out to work. CVS was
referred to; "all other bail
conditions shall remain in
place and binding."
Now on April 22,
2021, Perkins appeared before
Judge Rakoff to plead guilty.
Inner City Press again covered
it. Judge Rakoff began by
saying only two poets in the
English language still write
in rhymes - Inga Parsons and
Jed Rakoff. (But see
(DC) and here
(SDNY)). The plea was taken.
The case is US v.
Perkins, 19-cr-705 (Rakoff)
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