| Charged With Crack
Conspiracy In The Bronx Martin Ross Now Has
May 2021 SDNY Trial
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 10 – A crack cocaine
conspiracy with then only one
defendant was alleged in
December 2019 to be taking
place around 168th Street and
Fulton Avenue in The Bronx.
Jose L. Irizzary was charged
in the Complaint, but it was
Destiny Romero and Mikal Tariq
Leahr who were arrested.
On January
6, 2020 Judge Sidney H. Stein
of the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York held a conference with
both of those arrested. He
said, "We have somebody that
is a fugitive here; Mr. Ross,
correct?"
Assistant US
Attorney Jacob R. Fiddelman
replied, "That's correct. Mr.
Ross has not yet been
apprended."
On February 12,
2020 in the SDNY Magistrates
Court, with Inner City Press
the only media present, Martin
Ross was brought in shackled,
and left the same way.
Magistrate Judge
Robert W. Lehrburger confirmed
that he was being "remanded on
consent," and would appear
with the others at a
conference before District
Judge Stein.
Jump cut
to nearly a full year later,
on February 20, 2021: "MEMO
ENDORSEMENT granting
adjournment of the trial and
trial-related filing deadlines
in the above-captioned case.
At the last status conference,
the Court scheduled trial for
mid-April 2021 (with April 12,
2021 as the tentative trial
date pending formal scheduling
from the Courts COVID-19 trial
scheduling committee). Motions
in limine, proposed jury
instructions, and voir dire
questions are due on March 15,
2021, and responses to motions
in limine are due March 22. A
status conference is set for
March 15 at 10:30
a.m....ENDORSEMENT...The trial
is adjourned to May 17, 2021,
at 9:30 a.m. The deadline for
motions in limine, proposed
jury charges, and proposed
voir dire is April 15, 2021,
responses to motions in limine
are due by April 22. The
conference is adjourned to
April 19, 2021, at 2:30
p.m.... Hearings as to Martin
Ross, Mikal Tariq Leahr,
Destiny Romero, Jose L.
Irizarry: Responses due by
4/22/2021; Jury Trial set for
5/17/2021 at 09:30 AM before
Judge Sidney H. Stein. Status
Conference set for 4/19/2021
at 02:30 PM before Judge
Sidney H. Stein."
The case is US v.
Ross, 19-cr-913 (Stein /
Lehrburger).
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