| Ramel Pierson Is Not
Produced in SDNY From MDC Lawyer Wins Order
For Denied Legal Call
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 18 -- Ramiel Pierson was
conficted of robbing a
barbershop in 2014. On March
11, 2020 he was presented on
an alleged Violation of
Supervised Release and
remanded to the Metropolitan
Detention Center in
Brooklyn.
Things are
not going well there.
On March 19 in an
otherwise empty SDNY Courtroom
now serving as its Magistrates
Court, which Inner City Press
alone reported on all day,
Pierson's lawyer Carla
Sanderson stated the obvious:
her client was not with her at
the defense table.
She said
she had been told Pierson had
refused to come out of his
cell. She said she disbelieved
this, that Pierson wants to
address the alleged VOSR. She
said she has had difficulties
even getting a legal call with
her client.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Steward D.
Aaron took a recess to work
the phone in the robing room
of Courtroom 23A, usually that
of District Judge Sidney
Stein.
He emerged and
ordered that Sanderson "be
granted a legal call with
Defendant." Problems with
legal calls, even with the MCC
and MDC closed to legal
visits, were also a basis of
SDNY District Judge Alison
Nathan's order releasing a
defendant, which Inner City
Press first reported here.
This case is US
v. Pierson, 14-cr-855 (Aaron /
Swain).
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