| As Justice Carro Considers
a Murder and a Mask It Is Not the
One You Think on Luigi Day Off
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
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CENTRE STREET,
Dec 3 – On the afternoon of
December 3, after handing a
request to unseal Luigi
Mangione exhibits to a clerk
of NYS Justice Gregory Carro,
Inner City Press remained in
his courtroom to the end of
the day, awaiting action on
the letter.
It came,
such as it was, at the end.
But before that, a second wave
of crimes and stories and
tragedies and whispered
sidebars and vows to fire a
new and fourth lawyer. We'll
continue with these, with
more, we hope, to follow.
There was a defendant, like
another, charged with first
degree murder and fleeing with
a mask on. The ADA mentioned
lab reports and a getaway
vehicle, apparently a car and
not a bike. They were offering
Murder 2, 20 years to life.
"He's
charged with Murder 1," the
ADA pointed out. The defendant
was remanded, no multi-day
suppression hearing
mentioned.
A series
of robberies, from West 134th
Street down to 176 Spring
Street in Soho, resulted in
another offer: three to six
years. This defendant took the
plea, and will be back for
sentencing on January 14,
Justice Carro said.
There was a
woman brought out of the
holding cell twice, vowing
each time to fire her lawyer.
The first time, Justice Carro
told her, You have a good
lawyer.
She
replied, I don't feel I
do.
She is
charged with attempted
murder. OK,
Justice Carro said, I will
appoint you another lawyer
later today. But that will be
the last one.
We'll see
about that, the defendant
said, as they led her back
into the holding cell.
Near the
end of the day, the new 18B
assigned counsel was at
defense table when her new
client came out.
I'll fire her too, the
defendant said, if she doesn't
do what I say.
That's not
how this works, Justice Carro
replied. We'll
see.
More, including
comparison to Justice Carro's
current main case, on X for
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here
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