| SDNY Judge Crotty Cited
Manslaughter For Detention of Shakeil Chandler
Now Trial Looms
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 30 – A man who flagged
down the police and then was
charged with having a gun, Shakeil
Chandler,
was denied
bail on November 20 by
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Sarah
Netburn.
On
December 16, 2019 Chandler and
his Federal Defender
reappeared before SDNY
District Judge Paul A. Crotty,
again seeking bail.
Essentially the same arguments
were advanced - that he worked
for CAMBA in Brooklyn, like
one of his siblings, that
there was no reason to
disbelieve that the gun
belonged to someone else.
Judge
Crotty initially seemed
included to release the
defendant, asking the
Assistant US Attorney how he
could claim a risk of flight
given Chandler's job and sole
custody of his young child.
But the AUSA hammered on
Chandler's previous guilty
plea to first degree
manslaughter, and cited body
camera footage being given to
the defense.
Judge
Crotty asked whether the
street in the cited gang name
was in The Bronx - no, the
gang was formed on the West
Coast - then asked about seven
shell casings.
Judge Crotty
quoted Judge Netburn from the
initial Magistrates Court
transcript, about looking to
the underlying felony under a
Felon in Possession charge.
Here, it is manslaughter.
Judge Crotty ordered Chandler
to remain detained.
Now in the Spring
of 2021, trial is looming. The
US Attorney's Office has put
in photos from social media,
and cited "Hood Day." Judge
Crotty just finished the jury
trial of a carpenters' union
official, and this one is
next.
The case is
19-cr-867, US v. Chandler
(Crotty).
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