| For
2002 Death of
Atari Felton
in The Bronx
Ayala Gets 220
Months After
Asked For 60
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 6 – For the murder of
Atari Felton by 1665 Topping
Ave in The Bronx on March 27,
2002 two defendants were
brought shackled on September
13, 2023 before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Alvin K. Hellerstein.
Inner City Press was there,
the only media in the
courtroom.
But the two
defendants had supporters and
family members. A third
defendant - not in the docket
- is in Jamaica from which he
is unlikely to be extradited,
the AUSA said.
Judge
Hellerstein expressed
frustration at the slow pace
of discovery production or
processing; he asked why the
Discovery Coordinator was not
present. (They usually aren't,
the AUSA replied).
He
declined to set a trial date
before a motion schedule.
Jump cut to April
29, 2024, when Ayala's lawyer
wrote in asking for a five
year sentencing on May 6,
arguing that "he did not have
a gun nor was he at the actual
scene of the shooting when it
occurred."
On May 6, Ayala
was sentenced to 220 months
imprisonment.
The case is US v.
Ayala, et al., 22-cr-378
(Hellerstein)
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