| In SDNY Murky Mag Court Eliot
Martinez Detained Due to 33 Kilos of Coke
Case Not In PACER
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 25 – While
many even most
cases in the
Magistrates
Court of the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York are
sealed, on
June 25
before
Magistrate
Judge Robert
W. Lehrburger
ordered
detained a
defendant named
Martinez charged
with 33
kilograms of
cocaine, a
first name -
Eliot - and
a case number
were provided:
19-mj-5950.
But by 5 pm,
even after Judge
Lehrburger
had detained
Mr. Martinez
and set a July
8 hearing,
PACER said
"Cannot find
case
19-mj-5950."
So Inner City
Press reports:
Judge
Lehrburger
said he did
not find a
risk of
flight, but
given the
heavy weight
of coke, and
that Martinez
violated the
terms of his
probation in
New Jersey, he
would be
detained. This
came four
hours after an
appearance
before Judge
Castel of a
defendant
accused of offenses
against
children, a
defendant who
unlike
Martinez was
allowed free
on bond, to
his mother's
house in
Freehold, New
Jersey...
O
Hector Lebron was
sent to
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York in
April by
Northern
District of
Ohio Judge
James G. Carr
- and then was
forgotten for
more than two
months in the
Metropolitan
Correctional
Center in
lower
Manhattan.
On SDNY Magistrate
Judge Sarah
Netburn began what
her Deputy
said was the
last case of
the day by
asking when the
defendant
before her
came into SDNY
custody. The
answer
was
surprising:
Lebron was "writted over"
on April 24, from
a
Federal court
in Ohio, had
been forgotten
since then and
now should
have a hearing
before SDNY
District
Judge Alison
Nathan, date
not yet set.
Inner
City Press was
the only media
in the
Magistrates
Court and strained
forward to
hear the
number of the
case, but none
was given.
Only afterward
was it
able on the
PACER terminal in
the SDNY Press
Room to
find a Judge
Nathan case
involving
Hector Lebron.
But this once
dated back to
February 2014,
with Lebron on
Supervised
Release until
October 31,
2018, signed
by then SDNY
Judge Mary M.
Lisi and
Magistrate
Ronald L.
Ellis.
Further
research by
Inner City
Press found an
April 6, 2019
order by Judge
James G. Carr
Sr. of the
U.S. District
Court for the
Northern
District of
Ohio that
Lebron by
remanded to
the custody of
the U.S.
Marshall and transferred
to a "facility
as close to
New York as
possible."
The MCC
is right next
to the SDNY
courthouses
and the U.S.
Attorney's
Office. But no
one knew Lebron was
there for two
months. On
June 21 in the
empty Mag
Court the
Assistant U.S.
Attorney said
his colleague,
on trial, had
only seen
the e-mail the
night before.
Judge Netburn
said she would
investigate it,
and told Mr.
Lebron she wasn't
sure it was
her apology to
make...
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