| Jury Says
Not Guilty On BOP Guard Charged With Motel
Sex With Drug-Bearing Visitor
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 5 – While he was a
corrections officer at the
now-empty Metropolitan
Correctional Center in lower
Manhattan, Robert Adams was
accused of catching and then
letting off the hook
"non-inmate visitor 1" in
exchange for her having sex
with him.
On November
5, 2021, after a trial
reported on by Inner City
Press, Adams was found Not
guilty of all charges: "JURY
VERDICT as to Robert Adams (1)
Not Guilty on Count
1,1s,2,2s,3s. (lnl)."
Back on
November 1, Non-Inmate Visitor
1 was cross-examined by Adams'
lawyer, and at least one
person in the jury box didn't
like the "tone and method" of
the
cross-examination.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Paul G. Gardephe told
the defense lawyer, Samuel
Gregory, that while jurors are
admonished not to talk about
the case, they can and often
do talk about the lawyer.
Gregory
said the regular admonition,
not to discuss "any aspect of
the case," would suffice
then.
Before the
November 1 trial day ended,
Gregory asked Non-Inmate
Visitor 1, It was consensual,
wasn't it?
But
according to the superseding
indictment, Adams flashed his
gun when he picked up
Non-Inmate Visitor 1 at the
pizzeria near the MCC.
The story
goes that Adams observed
Non-Inmate Visitor 1 deliver
drugs to an inmate, then
decided to use it for leverage
for sex.
But Non-Inmate
Visitor 1 turned around and
Googled Adams, and told her
friends she "bagged a Fed."
The motions in limine are more
graphic, about a broken condom
and more.
The day ended
with uninvolved Qunisha Boyce
on the stand, identifying
herself on the MCC video
entering the visitors' room, 9
months pregnant, and want she
allegedly heard Adams say,
about the drugs and
pizzeria.
The Assistant US
Attorneys, including Nicholas
Roos just finished with the
Lev Parnas trial, said they
would rest at midday November
2, followed by closing
arguments on November 3.
On November
3 at 5 pm Inner City Press
checked in on the case; the
jury was still deliberating.
On November
4 just after noon the jury had
five questions. Inner City
Press ran to the courtroom to
hear them. The jurors want to
be directed to testimony by
Harris from the time the drugs
were intercepted until, Judge
Gardephe ruled, they left the
pizzeria. There is no
testimony about if a second
guard was present when the
drugs were found.
And then, the not
guilty verdicts. The players:
defense attorneys Zachery
Taylor and Samuel Gregory.
AUSAs Rushmi Bhaskaran, Jarrod
Schaefer and Nicholas Roos.
The case is US v.
Adams, 20-cr-494 (Gardephe).
***
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