| Man
Detained For Bomb Threat at SDNY Now Asks
for Any Sort of Court Appearance At All
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY MAG COURT
EXCLUSIVE, Oct 29 - In
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York on November 29, a
detention or bond proceeding
was held by Magistrate Judge
Stewart D. Aaron on a man
arrested the previous day for
saying he would bomb the US
Attorney's Office at One St.
Andrew's Plaza.
He made the
threat inside the security
screening area, dropping a
FedEx box on the ground which
had handwritten on it, "This
is a bomb."
Inner City
Press is on it, the only media
in the Mag Court.
The
defendant Taylor Cascio was
appointed a lawyer under the
Criminal Justice Act, or
actually two. But they did not
make an argument for release
on bond, instead consenting to
detention.
The
Complaint says Cascio
previously "conveyed a false
bomb threat to a security
guard at the Jacob K. Javits
Federal Office Building on
March 10, 2022."
In May 2023
Magistrate Judge Cott excluded
time prospectively, and
unsealed then resealed a
document apparently about
competency. From then until
this writing in February 2024,
nothing in the docket. On
February 5, 2024, Inner City
Press published this question:
where is Taylor Cascio?
On February
23, an answer was docketed -
Taylor Cascio, pro se, filed
for bail, ineffective
assistance of counsel, "to
compel speedy trial and to set
aside judgment of
incompetence."
On March 1, Chief
Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn
ruled: "ORDER with respect to
[21] MOTION Omnibus Motion as
to Taylor Cascio. The
Government and Counsel for the
Defendant are ORDERED to meet
and confer in connection with
this application and, by March
11, 2024, file a letter."
But the letter
was sealed. Finally on July 8
three letters from Cascio to
the Court were belatedly
docketed, including one
petitioning to be given the
"full paperwork from this
case," the next that "from the
little Mr. Cascio has been
able to find out about the
charges against him, the case
is unsustainable."
On October 29,
docketed was Cascio's October
22 email "motion for any sort
of court appearance at all,"
which argues that his lawyer
and the prosecutors are
essentially pretending to
negotiate in a ruse to
circumvent the Speedy Trial
Act.
The case is US v.
Cascio, 22-mj-9601 (Netburn)
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