| Man Jailed For Violating
Supervision Said Life Ruined After
Fight With Marshals Out Dec 24
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Dec 3 – A man who pled guilty
to drug charges in 2012 and
was sentenced to 66 months in
prison is still under
supervised release in 2024.
On July 24 he was
ordered detained pending a
hearing set for August 19; he
complained that his life is
being ruined by supervision.
Inner City Press was
there.
The 2012
sentencing was by U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Richard J. Sullivan, in
Courtroom 21C of 500 Pearl
Street. It was in the same
room, before the same judge
(now on the Second Circuit and
sitting by designation) that
remand was ordered.
That's when the colloquy
began.
Canales
said, Since 1999, I have no
life, I have not been free.
Judge Sullivan referred to the
breach of trust that
violations of supervised
release are - a stop for
speeding by NYS Troopers,
trespassing charges by the
MTA.
This
is a sentencing conversation,
Judge Sullivan said. I'll see
you at the hearing.
Inner City Press
attended the August 19
hearing. Canales said he fell
asleep on the train then used
the FindMyPhone app which told
him it was in the train yard.
He went in to get it but was
spotted, and charged with
resisting arrest.
On September 6,
Canales' lawyer wrote in
asking for time served. He was
set to be sentenced on
September 25.
But something
happened. And on October 3,
Judge Sullivan ordered for
October 10 "additional
information... regarding the
physical altercation that
transpired between the
Supervisee and members of the
US Marshals Service" on
September 25 - or he'll hold a
hearing.
A hearing
was held on November 25, and
Judge Sullivan found that "the
government witness' testimony
credible and uncontradicted by
available evidence." He set
sentencing for December 3.
On December 3,
Canales was sentenced to five
months with credit for time
served, to be released on
December 24 - Christmas Eve.
The case
is US v. Canales, 11-cr-676
(Sullivan)
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