| Prostitute Who
Faced Death For Killing John by
GHB Quietly Pleads Guilty
Docketing Delay
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Jan 30 – In a bar in midtown
Manhattan on the evening of
August 15, 2023 Stanley Stark
met up with a woman and took
her to a hotel at 1 am.
Once in the
room he was drugged with GHB,
the date rape drug, and his
credit card, iPhone and wallet
stolen.
He was
found dead by hotel staff in
the morning. The NYC Medical
Examiner named the cause of
death as "acute intoxication
by the combined effects of
cocaine, ethanol and
gamma-hydroxybutyrate" - that
is, GHB.
Summer Caster and
her pimp Jalen Teague were
arrested and indicted with the
death penalty on the table, in
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York.
Inner City
Press, which covers the SDNY
courthouse closely,
exclusively reported on their
arraignment with two other
women in the case, in chains,
then on the transfer of one of
them from Bedford Hills to the
MDC.
With no
notice, not in the day's
docket on PACER, Summer Caster
appeared on January 30, 2026
before the week's Magistrate
duty judge Henry J. Ricardo -
not in the normal Magistrates
Courtroom 5A, but upstairs in
Courtroom 21D.
Initially
there was no one else in the
gallery. The three defense
lawyers, including learned
counsel certified for death
penalty cases, were summoned
in to meet Magistrate Judge
Ricardo in his chambers.
Later the two prosecutors went
in. They all emerged, and the
proceeding began.
Summer
Caster was pleading guilty to
all 10 counts against her,
including Count 2 with a
mandatory minimum of life in
prison.
Learned counsel
intervened to say that that is
also the maximum: Summer
Caster is no longer facing the
death penalty. But
why was she pleading guilty
with a minimum of life in
prison?
The AUSA
asked the sentencing not be
set for a full six months in
the future, then asked that no
date be set, nor
pre-sentencing report order at
this time.
The CJA lawyer
said off-handedly that the
proceeding should not be
docketed.
More on X for
Subscribers here
and Substack here
The overall case
is USA v Teague, et al.,
1:25-cr-40 (Broderick /
Ricardo)
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