| On Skelos SDNY Judge Wood Asked Why
Not Bail Pending Appeal He Cites 18 Months
For Vaccine
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 6 – Convicted Long
Island politician Dean Skelos
two more years on his sentence
at Otisville Federal
Correctional Institution.
Amid the
Coronavirus crisis, he has
asked U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Judge Kimba M. Wood for
compassionate release.
On April 3
in a telephone conference
Judge Wood grilled Skelos'
lawyers on why he is not
instead applying for bailing
pending appeal.
Assistant US Attorney Thomas
McKay called this very
telling, indictive that
Skelos' real concern is not
the possibility of getting
COVID-19 at Otisville but
instead using the crisis to
get his sentence
eliminated.
As to
compassionate release, as
Inner City Press has been
reporting this week in a
decision by SDNY Judge Andrew
L. Carter
and another pending from Judge
P. Kevin Castel,
there is a strong argument
that exhaustion of
administrative remedies is
required before a federal
District judge would grant
release. (Judge Castels
confirmed that on April 6
here.)
Skelos only
applied to the Bureau of
Prisons in late March, and BOP
has thirty days to
rule. Judge Wood
directed Skelos' lawyers to
address by Tuesday the
question of why they are not
asking for bailing pending
appeal.
On April 6
past 5 pm Skelos' lawyers
replied that "any time spent
out on bail pending appeal
would not count as time served
against Mr. Skelos'
sentence... Mr Skelos decided
it was in his best interest
not to seek bail pending
appeal.. Scientists are at
least 18 months away from an
effective mass produced
vaccination" for COVID-19.
They cited CNN. Watch this
site.
Inner City Press will
continue to report on this
case. It is US v. Skelos,
15-cr-317 (Wood).
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