| MCC Lock
Down Review In Detail By SDNY Judge Failla
Leads To Bail For Luis Meson
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 7 – Luis Meson has been
imprisoned in the Metropolitan
Correctional Center in lower
Manhattan since October 2019.
Since February
when a gun was found in the
facility, and now throughout
the Coronavirus pandemic, he
and others in the MCC have
been in lock-down.
On December 2,
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Katherine Polk Failla
held a lengthy bond hearing on
and with Meson. Inner City
Press covered it, below.
Now on December
7, "proceedings held before
Judge Katherine Polk
Failla:Motion For Temporary
Pretrial Release on
disposition sheet as to Luis
Meson held on 12/7/2020. AUSA
Nicholas Chiuchiolo present.
Defendant's Counsel Lorraine
Gauli-Rufo present.
$150,000.00 PRB, 4 FRP, Travel
restricted to SDNY/EDNY,
Surrender travel documents
(& No new applications),
Pretrial supervision as
directed by pretrial services,
Drug testing/treatment as
directed by PTS, Mental health
evaluation/treatment as
directed by PTS, Home
incarceration, GPS, Deft not
to possess firearm/destructive
device/other weapon, Deft to
be detained until all
conditions are met. Defendant
to live with one of the
co-signers, [Name not
published by Inner City Press,
voluntarily] in Queens, NY, or
with another co-signer, so
long as that co-signer's
living quarters are approved
by Pretrial Services.
Defendant is not to
communicate with witnesses
and/or co-defendants outside
of the presence of counsel.
Deft is to self-install GPS
monitoring at the direction of
Pretrial Services. (jw)."
Back on
December 2, after lawyers'
arguments about the ability to
review discovery while in
lockdown, Judge Failla put
questions to Meson himself,
with his counsel's
consent.
Meson
explained how in 7 South they
are let out of their cells
only from 7 am to 7:30 am,
three days a week. Sixteen
inmates compete for a single
computer.
His lawyer
described a fire; the
Assistant US Attorney blamed
it on a prisoner using a
lightbulb outlet to charge a
cell phone -- contraband.
Later the AUSA said that was
just his understanding.
A decision
earlier in the pandemic by
EDNY Judge Garaufis was cited.
And on December 7, the
decision to free Meson on
bond.
The case is US v.
Tavarez, et al., 19-cr-690
(Failla)
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