| Calvin Hudson Is Out of MCC
To Prepare Loansharking Defense Now Kenyatta
Wants Out
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 26-- Calvin Hudson was
detained in the MCC in lower
Manhattan since mid 2019 on
charges including
loansharking. But now as the
time for trial approaches, his
lawyer is unable to meet with
him given the Bureau of
Prisons banning all visits
including legal visits.
It's worse
than that. To review the
discovery in his case, largely
considering of recorded phone
calls converted into computer
audio files, there is in
Hudson's part of the MCC only
one computer for 106 inmates,
and it is directly under the
loud public TV.
Citing
these factors as well as
Hudson's age and the
Coronavirus crisis, on March
19 U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Chief Judge Colleen McMahon
ordered Hudson released into
home incarceration, so he can
help prepare his defense.
Inner City
Press, along in the courtroom
on March 19, had previously
reported on the cases of
Hudson's two co-defendants, here
and here.
Now one of his co-defendants,
Charles Kenyatta, has on March
26 asked to be released
pending sentencing: ""as of
two days ago, three
corrections officers at the
Westchester County Jail at
Valhalla, where Mr. Kenyatta
is housed, have tested
positive for Covid-19... The
government opposes Mr.
Kenyatta's release on the
ground that Mr. Kenyatta has
already pled guilty to a crime
that involved threats of
violence to a victim." We'll
have more on this case. It is
US v. Hudson, 19-cr-496
(McMahon).
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