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Narco Orense Moves to Suppress iPhone
Seized in Italy Citing Delay Nov 27 Trial
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURT Scoop,
Nov 25 –
Venezuelan indicted
narco-trafficker Carlos Orense
Azocar was presented in
Magistrates Court in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
on June 23, 2023 and Inner
City Press was (the only
media) there.
Orense had
just been extradited in from
Italy and the indictment
against him unsealed. He was
bought into the courtroom by
two U.S. Marshals, in a green
T-shirt and a shaved head with
deep lines in it, at least in
the back.
SDNY Magistrate
Judge Valerie Figueredo
reviewed the financial
affidavit that Azocar signed
and submitted and appointed
him publicly-paid Criminal
Justice Act counsel.
(Given his
resources, Inner City Press
has already filed to have
unsealed his financial
affidavit, as it won in the
recent narco case of Honduras'
Tigre Bonilla).
Orense pled
not guilty and consented to
detention. The case was
wheeled out and assigned to
District Judge Vernon S.
Broderick.
On
November 14, Inner City Press
covered the final pre-trial
conference before Judge
Broderick. Orense was not
there. Thread.
On November 24,
Black Friday, Orense's counsel
filed a motion to suppress the
contents of Orense's iPhone
seized during his arrest in
Italy, based on DOJ's delay is
seeking a warrant to search
it.
Back in June
Inner City Press immediately
wrote to Magistrate Judge
Figueredo to unseal, and was
told told to file by ECF. But
that is not possible unless
one is listed as a filer in
the case. Inner City Press
requested that to Magistrate
Judge Figueredo's chambers
then those of Judge Broderick.
On July 5, the request to
unseal was docketed, here
On July 7, 2022
Judge Broderick granted Inner
City Press' request to unseal,
put into a minute order: " the
Court grants the request
addressed in the order at
docket no. 10, to unseal the
financial affidavit and
information of Defendant,
Carlos Orense Azoca ."
But as of
November 25, the financial
affidavit (Docket 7) was still
sealed, its link not live on
PACER.
But the
transcript of July 7 is
available, including:
THE COURT: The
next thing I'm going to
address is I received from
Inner City Press a request for
the financial affidavit...
MR. FOY: ...The
person who made the
application was presented when
I explained why there wasn't
much information included.
AUSA WIRSHBA: The
government takes no position
on the application.
THE COURT: I'm
going to direct that the
financial affidavit be
unsealed. To the extent that
the Inner City Press, that Mr.
Lee - since it sound like he's
already aware of the comments
about it, I'm going to unseal
it, and I'll see the parties
on August 22.
Inner City Press
will continue covering the
case - and the request(s).
The case is US v.
Azocar, 21-cr-379 (Broderick)
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