| Accused Slasher of Witness
Neck Now on Trial in SDNY, Federal Defenders
Cross on Bananas
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 15 – Christian Nieves is
on trial on witness tampering
charges. The complaint says
that Nieves and his
co-defendant conspired to
slash an individual across the
neck in retaliation for his
testimony in a federal
criminal trial.
Back on
August 11, 2020 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge Jed
S. Rakoff held a proceeding.
Inner City Press covered it,
and the pre-trial conferences
since.
On April 15
in the large courtroom on the
26th floor of 500 Pearl
Street, Judge Rakoff took
counsel into the side room for
a sidebar. Then Federal
Defenders cross examined a
witness about his interviews
in March 2021 with prosecutors
and an NYPD detective, about
selling "bananas" -- percocet
-- bought outside pharmacies,
and deleting 20 out of 23 text
messages.
The trial
continues, with at least three
others to start next week and
this
one already in 40 Foley.
This case is US
v. Polanco, 19-cr-354 (Rakoff)
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