| For Defendant Sentenced
March 4 CJA Lawyer Says He Should Have
Postponed For COVID
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 27 –
Sharon Hatcher was sentenced
on March 4, 2020 on drug
charges.
Two days later
her lawyer Stephen Turano had
a murder-for-hire trial in New
Jersey indefinitely postponed
due to Coronavirus. But
Hatcher was and is in the
Metropolitan Correctional
Center.
In an April
13 letter, Turano took
responsibility: "as Ms.
Hatcher's defense counsel [I]
should have requested an
adjournment of her sentence
and promptly requested her
release on bail pending her
sentence."
Turano on April
16 argued for her release
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Judge Katharine Polk
Faila.
Judge
Failla was steeped in recent
decisions by her fellow SDNY
Judges, many of which Inner
City Press has exclusively
covered. Judge P. Kevin
Castel's decision in Woodson;
Judge Paul A. Engelmayer's
ordered denying release, after
he released cooperator Tekashi
6ix9ine.
After
running through the cases, and
with the telephone connection
less than ideal, Judge Failla
denied release. The case is US
v. Hatcher, 18-cr-454
(Failla).
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