| Queens Mother of Three
Turned Bronx Car Jacker Gets Downward Variance
to 36 Months
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 19 – Shelly Washington, a
26-year old mother of three
charged with an armed
car-jacking in The Bronx, was
brought in shackles into the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrates Court on January
31, 2020. She was the last
case of the day, and Inner
City Press was the only media
present.
Assistant
US Attorney David Robles said
that she should be detained,
that surveillance video showed
the car jacking and that her
co-conspirator is still at
liberty.
Federal Defender
Julia Gatto emphasized that
her client does not appear on
the surveillance video, which
covered only the driver's
seat. She said Washington
lives in Far Rockaway with her
mother who has legal custody,
by the family's choice, over
her three children. Washington
"does hair" in their
residence, and would consent
to home detention.
Magistrate Judge James L. Cott
retired to his robing room to
confer with Pre Trial
Services. He emerged some 15
minutes later to ask about the
children's custody
arrangement, then took a
shorter recess.
When he
returned, Judge Cott said he
is sympathetic to any mother
of three, and is not
prejudging the merits of the
prosecution. But he could not
see a set of conditions on
which Washington could be
released.
He
ordered her detained, with the
understanding that at a
conference set for February 3
she and Federal Defender Gatto
could argue again for release
before assigned District Judge
Lewis A. Kaplan.
Now a year
later on January 19 Washington
was up for sentencing before
Judge Kaplan, and Inner City
Press again covered it. Judge
Kaplan said while he is
sympathetic to any mother of
three, the conduct was very
serious. While the Government
asked for 60 months, he gave a
sentence of 36 months - a
substantial downward variance,
he emphasized - in large part
due to the extra penalty of
being jailed during COVID.
The case is US v.
Washington, 20-cr-37 (Kaplan).
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