| In SDNY Judge Cote Lets
Cocaine Pleader Stay Free But Must Stay
Employed at Venezuelan Restaurant
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 31 – Juan Carlos
Rosario-Sarit was arrested and
charged with cocaine
conspiracy earlier this year
and assigned a Federal
Defender.
But it
turned out Federal Defenders
had represented a witness in
the case, so a CJA lawyer was
appointed on July 24 by U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Denise Cote.
On
December 30 Judge Cote
accepted the guilty plea of
Juan Carlos Rosario-Sarit.
There is by statute mandatory
detention pending sentencing,
but one that is waivable in
extraordinary circumstances.
After back and forth with
appointed CJA lawyer Avraham
Moskowitz about his client's
employment at a Venezuelan
restaurant in Brooklyn, and
with two U.S. Marshal sitting
in the back of her courtroom
along with Inner City Press,
Judge Cote found extraordinary
circumstances.
Already, his co-defendant has
moved into the SDNY's Young
Adult Opportunity Program
(which Inner City Press has
written about). And Judge Cote
said since she might
ultimately decide on a
non-incarceratory sentence,
detention pending sentencing
did not seem right.
She admonished the defendant
"you have to stay employed."
The case is US v.
Rosario-Sarit, 19-cr-367
(Cote).
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