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Criminal
Justice System
Is Broken
Woman in SDNY
on Texas
Warrant tells
Inner City
Press
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
EXCLUSIVE,
Dec 22 – Kelly Josek was
brought in shackles into the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
on December 15, 2023.
Inner City
Press was there, the only
media in the SDNY Mag Court.
In the days since, Inner City
Press has interviewed Ms.
Josek, about her early life
and legal troubles. It is a
story of resilience, or
persistence, one that does not
make the system look good.
She was
born to a middle class family
that fell apart, leaving her
homeless at 15 and vulnerable
to male predators, including
one high in the legal
profession (more on that later
in this series).
In jail in
Rikers Island under the name
Kelly Spinelli-Josek she was
assaulted, leading to a
$450,000 payment. But when
this month, in detention in
Queens after release from SDNY
she asked not to be returned
to Rikers, her appointed
lawyer said they don't care
about that in Queens.
When she
was released from Queens, she
was picked up on an NYPD
Brooklyn I-Card, only getting
out of detention on December
22 - when she was due to
self-surrender in New Jersey
(and misleadingly there are
arraignments there on Saturday
- there are not).
In the
Texas case which triggered her
first SDNY detention, her
appointed lawyer said he
couldn't or wouldn't help her.
Only once she was transported
there from SDNY - most likely
slowly, and through the BOP
facility in Oklahoma) would he
speak to her. She admits she
is a junkie. But this system
is broken. Why for example was
her drug treatment program cut
off as soon as EDTX issued a
warrant for her? We will have
more on this.
For now more - on
a law firm, a film director,
and NYPD - on Substack here
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