| Cesar
Sayoc Serving 20 Years For Pipe
Bombs Files Bid for Release But
Did Not Ask Warden
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Periscope,
Photos
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 18 – When Cesar Sayoc came
to be sentenced by
Judge Jed
Rakoff in the
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York on
August 5, 2019
- before he
got a 20 year
term and a
written
decision -- he
had a written
speech about
being sexual
abused in a
Catholic
boarding
school and now
not believing
what he wrote
on social
media as he
sent the
sixteen
amateurish
pipe bombs.
Sayoc's
Federal
Defender Ian
Marcus Amelkin
began to argue
how, in
essence, Trump
was to blame.
Judge Rakoff
cut this off,
calling it a
sideshow. He
said the issue
was what Sayoc
did, and what
he intended at
the time.
The defense's
expert
Harrison G.
Pope said that
the effects of
steroid are
gone within
weeks. Judge
Rakoff as one
of a half
dozen jokes
said he'd read
the study, to
make sure he
could get a
good nights
sleep. He also
joked about
not holding
Harvard
pedigree
against the
experts, and
that law
school is
cruel and
unusual
punishment.
Each brought
loud laughter,
some perhaps
directed at
impacting the
sentence. In
less high
profile
proceedings
Judge Rakoff
is equally
jocular, and
the laughter
often more
sincere.
After
a ten minute
break Judge
Rakoff
returned and
read a written
decision. He
ran through
the standard
of Section
3553(a) - a
sentence no
longer than
necessary -
and the Golden
Rule. He
concluded that
Sayoc could
have built a
functioning
bomb but chose
not to. But
that did not
lead to the
minimum, ten
year sentence,
but its
double: 20
years (240
months), then
four years of
supervised
release.
In November
2021 Sayoc
filed an 8
page plea for
compassionate
release,
citing "props
from my
Chippendale
male dance
show" - but
forgot a key
point: "ORDER
as to Cesar
Altieri Sayoc
(1): because
Sayoc has not
indicated that
he has made
such a request
in writing
with the
Warden of his
facility, the
present motion
is denied with
out prejudice.
SO ORDERED.
(Signed by
Judge Jed S.
Rakoff on
11/18/202).
The
case is US v.
Sayoc,
18-cr-820
(Rakoff)
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