| MCC Lock
Down Reviewed In Detail By SDNY Judge
Failla With Meson Ruling Due Dec 7
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 2 – 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.
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.
Judge Failla said she will
rule next week.
The case is US v.
Tavarez, et al., 19-cr-690
(Failla)
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