| In SDNY Murky Mag Court Oliver Tries
Again For Sale But 4 Guns Weigh Heavily
Detention Continues
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon Scope
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 29 – While
many even most
cases in the
Magistrates
Court of the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York are
sealed or have
no case number
given, on July 9
before
Magistrate
Judge Henry B. Pitman
things hit a
new level of
murkiness.
At the
end of the day
two drug co defendants
were brought
it, "No case
number
assigned."
One,
Hugo Witter,
quickly got
bail with even
his GSP bracelet
to be "revisited"
in two months.
The other,o case
number
assignedNo
case number
assigned
Gilbert Oliver was
ordered detained
pending trial
even as
his (retained)
lawyer argued
that the
transaction at
issue had been
set up by
Witter and a
confidential
informant.
Sure, there
remained the
matter of the
four guns, the
cocaine and
$140,000 in
cash.
Twenty
days later on
July 29 with a
new retained
lawyer Guy
Oksenhendler
Gilbert Oliver
was brought
back into
Magistrates
Court and made
a second
argument for
bail to
Magistrate
Judge Ona T.
Wang, who
noted that the
ostensible
equity in the
Brooklyn
property being
offered had
shrunk from
$500,000 to
$100,000. This
new retained
lawyer tried
to blame the
old CJA one
for having
tried to get
bail.
But
bail was
denied again.
The prosecutor
Sarah
Nortazavi
asked, during
the lull, if
this would be
appealed to
Part I. If it
is, Inner City
Press will aim
to be there.,
Earlier
on July
9 on
an
indictment
for loansharking, at
first the
government
said the boss
of the conspiracy
was recorded
making threats
for the
repayment of
the "loan."
Then,
after Judge Pitman
was said this
defendant was
detained,
it was said
that there is
no recording
of that
threat, only
two witnesses
both of whom
are
cooperators.
Judge Pitman
reversed
himself and
allowed the
loansharking
boss to be
freed on bond,
with a
signature by
his sister who
is a part-time
professor at
NYU. The
loansharking
muscleman with
a relative
working at
Columbia
University but
only at a
coffee serving
franchise, was
detained.
Back on July
3, a murder
defendant was
brought
through,
charged with
the killing in
2818 Bronx
Park East of
Shaquille
Malcolm. The
defendant's
last name - no
case number
was given -
was Hopkins,
with all
Speedy Trial
Act time
excluded until
September 5.
The charging
document, even
as shown to
the defense,
was missing
the third
count. One CJA
lawyer stood
in for
another. And
so it goes in
the SDNY.
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