| Trial for Upper West Side
Murder of Maria Hernandez in 2023
Has Halting Cross of Sister
by
Matthew & Russell Lee, Patreon Substack
100
CENTRE ST,
Feb 24 – More than three years
after Maria Hernandez was
murdered in her Upper West
Side apartment, Lashawn Mackey
is on trial before NYS Justice
Felicia Mennin.
On February 17
the building resident who gave
her Ring camera footage to the
police was on the stand. Inner
City Press was there, live
tweeting: ADA: After reviewing
your Ring camera footage, what
did you do?
Witness: I spoke
with my super Oscar Sanchez
ADA: How long has he been the
super there? Witness: 20 years
ADA: Did you give
the Ring footage to law
enforcement? Witness:
Yes.
ADA: Does
building management keep a
copy of the key to your
apartment? Witness: No.
ADA: Do they tell you of
changes in building staff?
Witness: Yes.
ADA: Had you seen a memo about
the super going on leave in
May 2022? Witness: Yes, a
memo, in elevator and door
Cross:
Defense lawyer
Jessica Horani: On January 18,
2023, you spoke with your
neighbor Samantha - but she's
not in the Ring footage?
Witness: She is not.
Horani: Do you know her last
name? Witness: No. Horani: Age
- old, young? Witness: She was
young Horani: What level of
Ring account did you have?
Witness: Normal. Horani: How
long would they keep the
footage for you? Witness: I
don't know. Horani: You
emailed the footage to the
police on Jan 19? Witness:
Yes. Horani: What did you
send? Witness: 5 clips
Lengthy
sidebar(s)
A week later on
February 24, Horani was
cross-examining the decedent's
sister, Mrs. Guerrero - not an
enviable task. At the end
Horani seemed to imply that
Mrs. Guerrero had taken some
benefits from the prosecutors'
office. But what? Therapy? A
list of phone numbers to call
to seek housing when the rent
on West 83rd Street went up?
Judge Mennin
called for a sidebar, at which
she audibly said, One at a
time!
Meanwhile down
the hall of the 11th floor of
100 Centre Street, Justice
Cori Weston was presiding over
a lower profile trial - mere
assault - with virtually no
one in the gallery by Inner
City Press. Justice Weston,
rather than sidebars, sent the
jurors out for five minute
breaks twice in an hour. We
remain on the case(s).
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