| Dominican Man On Drug
Charge
With Quinn Emanuel Wins Release But No GPS
Then Pro Hac Vice
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 18 -- A Dominican man
extradited to the US to face
cocaine trafficking charges
was ordered released on March
18 by SDNY Magistrate Judge
Sarah L. Cave, on $100,000
bond with the government's
request for a stay of release
to permit appeal denied.
In that
proceeding in the SDNY
Magistrates Courtroom 5A,
Francisco Antonio Perez
Fernandez was represented by
retained counsel Alex Spiro of
Quinn Emanuel. Once he was
ordered released, Spiro left.
Inner City Press, the only
media then in the Mag court,
remained.
But there
was a delay as no GPS ankle
bracelet to install on him
could be found. In the
interim, Assistant US Attorney
Matthew Hellman called the
chambers of SDNY Chief Judge
Colleen McMahon, who has the
case. Hellman was referred to
the sitting Part 1 Judge, SDNY
District Judge Valerie
Caproni.
There, again with Inner City
Press present, Perez Fernandez
was represented by a Quinn
Emanuel associate, Joshua
Stanton, who is not yet
formally admitted to the New
York Bar. Judge Caproni
admitted him pro hac vice
while asking, Why did Mr.
Spiro not
return?
AUSA Hellman
largely rehashed his arguments
from the Mag Court. Judge
Caproni zeroed in on the group
pleading in the extradition
affidavit, which left it
unclear what exactly the
defendant said, or knew.
Judge Caproni denied AUSA
Hellman's request for
detention, but said Judge
Cave's conditions of release
were inadequate. She increased
the bond from $100,000 to
$250,000 (Spiro had offered $1
million, and Stanton said his
client's family has the
money).
She also said the
two financially responsible
person must be vetted and sign
before Perez Fernandez is
released. The case is US v.
Perez Fernandez, 16-cr-254
(McMahon / Cave /
Caproni).
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