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Mag Court Kambiz Ilkhani Took 8 Week
Diesel Therapy Trip to DC, Now No GPS
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY MAG COURT,
August 20 – In the Magistrates
Court of the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York on August
20, a defendant was presented
after being detained on a
warrant from the District of
Columbia.
The DC case is
for "unauthorized operation of
a vehicle" - driving a
friend's rental car after it
was due to be turned in. The
detainee Kambiz Ilkhani had
been processed through SDNY
before on it. That time, he
did not seek release, thinking
the U.S. Marshals would
transport him to DC.
They did -
but it took eight weeks, via
Oklahoma, in a process some
call diesel therapy.
And since it
clearly costs the taxpayers
more, is there some contractor
involved?
This time,
his Federal Defender first won
his release on $10,000 bond
co-signed by one financial
responsible person. Then he
asked to be out with a GPS
bracelet to try to find the
suretor. But there were no
more GPS bracelets this day.
Ilkhani,
speaking for himself, offered
to go directly to DC and get a
GPS bracelet from Pre-Trial
Services there. Judge Cave
said, Don't go to DC right
now.
It appears he'll
be released Monday or Tuesday
when a bracelet is available,
and will be given two and not
just one week to find the
suretor, or ask that the
condition be waived.
The case is US v.
Ilkhani, 21-mj-8229 (Cave)
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