| In SDNY Murky Mag Court An Accused
Murdered Named Jones Is Detained Until
September 5
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon Scope
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 11 – 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 Gabriel
Gorenstein,
filling in
without explanation
for Henry B. Pitman,
things hit a
new level of
murkiness.
A defendant
with the last
name Jones, no
case number,
was brought in
charged with
murder. He was
detained, all
the way until
September 5
for his next
appearance.
Who is
he? Whom did
he allegedly
kill? This
was not said
in Mag Court,
and Inner City
Press
has been told
to not ask
questions. But
we will. After
Jones there
was an
interminable
wait for a
presentee for
whom at least
two names were
given - Colin
Williams - but
for whom the
various
players wandered
away seriatim.
There was yet
another, with
report
delayed. We hope to
have more on
this.
Earlier
on July 11 a
69 year old
man was
brought in in
shackles, shivering
and as it
turned out in
heroin
withdrawal.
But it was
unclear on
what authority he
had been
arrested.
Judge Pitman
asked as was told
that Probation
had conducted
a home visit
and found 35.9
grams of heroin
and had hauled
him in.
But it
also turned
out this his
roommate,
certainly an
equally
plausible
owner of the
heroin, was a
convicted
felon. Why
Probation
hadn't
realized that
in the one
year the
supervisee has
lived there
was unclear,
as was the
pronunciation
of his name.
Bizari?
Nisari?
Pasari? There
are no case
numbers given,
no New
Presentments,
nothing. We'll
have more on
this.
On July
9 at
the end of the
day
two drug co defendants
were brough
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. But
who's
counting?
We'd
include the
case number in
this story but
none has been
provided, and
it has been
implied to
Inner City
Press that it
has asked too
many
questions,
that it should
just
repeatedly hit
refresh on the
PACER terminal
in the press
room it has
been working
from for more
than two
months. OK,
we'll have
more.
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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