| Defendant Who Flushed Pants
Down Toilet and Missed Trial Gets
Stabbing Sentencing Pushed Back
by
Matthew & Russell Lee, Patreon Substack
111
CENTRE ST,
July 23
– A man who declined to be
present at the 111 Centre
Street trial in which he was
convicted was up for
sentencing on July 23. Inner
City Press was
there.
The defense
lawyer, citing a change in
sentencing law not yet
implemented, asked that his
client get the same eight year
concurrent on a drug and a
stabbing charge.
The prosecution
disagreed, asking for a
consecutive sentence citing a
lack of remorse. The defense
described the eight-year drug
sentence as "ridiculously
harsh."
The
defendant spoke up for
himself, saying that the jury
never saw him before
convicting him.
That
was your choice, Justice
Robert M. Rosenthal said. The
only day you offered to come,
you flushed your pants down
the toilet and said you'd come
in your underwear.
"Would you like to hear why?"
the defendant
asked. No,
Justice Rosenthal said. I
would have liked to hear it
then. Not now.
"You don't
care," the defendant
said.
Justice Rosenthal said he
didn't like having to make
decisions about so much of a
person's life on the fly. He
set sentencing over for August
27.
Four
stories down, a defendant
charged with attempted murder
watched as a detective
narrated the video of a
person, perhaps the defendant,
shooting a gun near Lenox
Avenue and 127th Street. That
trial continues. For the first
defendant, there is only the
sentencing, long or longer.
***
Your
support means a lot. As little as $5 a month
helps keep us going and grants you access to
exclusive bonus material on our Patreon
page. Click
here to become a patron.
Feedback:
Editorial [at] innercitypress.com
Mail: Box 130222, Chinatown Station,
NY NY 10013
Other, earlier Inner City Press are
listed here,
and some are available in the ProQuest
service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.
Copyright 2006-2026 Inner City
Press, Inc. To request reprint or other
permission, e-contact Editorial [at]
innercitypress.com
|
,
