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Scott Was Allowed Rare Alford Plea Now
Co-Defendant Person Set For Oct 25 Plea
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 8 – Curtis Scott had a
change of plea proceeding
scheduled for July 21 - but he
did not want to admit guilt.
Ultimately, he was not
required to.
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Richard M. Berman held
the proceeding. Inner City
Press covered it, below.
Now on
September 8 in the same
overall case, co-defending
Robert Person had an
evidentiary hearing before
Judge Berman. It concerned a
state charge and violation of
supervised released. But all
seemed to be going well; Judge
Berman said he was glad to
hear it. A next hearing was
set for October 25 at 12:30
pm, for plea and sentence.
Back in August
the request was that Scott be
permitted to make a rare
Alford plea, under North
Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S.
25 (1970).
That is,
Scott consented to the
imposition of a prison
sentence. The US Attorney's
Office put in a Bronx grand
jury indictment about guns and
more.
Judge
Berman accepted the Alford
plea.
Then, a strange
issue of "banked time" arose,
requiring inquiry with the
BOP's "Designation and
Sentence Computation Center"
in Grand Prairie, Texas -
which opined that "if [Scott]
was released to time served,
there would be no over-served
time." And so that's what was
done: time served, with four
years of supervised release.
The overall case
is US v. Jones, 09-cr-983
(Berman)
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