| Molotov
Cocktail Defendants Win Appeal In 2d
Circuit Which Says Bail Conditions
Sufficient
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Soundcloud
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FEDERAL
COURTHOUSE, June 30 –
Amid protests about the murder
of George Floyd, late on May
30 the U.S. Attorney for the
Eastern District of New York
got a complaint signed
by Magistrate Judge
Sanket J. Bulsara about a
Molotov cocktail attack on an
NYPD vehicle.
Inner City Press,
which covered the protests in
Foley Square and at One Police
Plaza on May 29 (video here
and edited here),
and aftermath
on Fifth Avenue on May
30, publishes the
complaint (later-written song
on Soundcloud).
On
June 5 the
Second Circuit
Court of Appeals first
heard the
government's
appeal of the
release of
Mattis and
Rahman. Inner
City Press
live tweeted
it, here,
and see below.
Now
on June 30
by two
to one a
Second Circuit
panel has upheld the
release of
Mattis and Rahman on
bond.
Presumably
they will be
released on
July 1, if not
immediately
on June 30.
Here is
or should be
the full decision
which
concluded:
"while we
would not
necessarily
have reached
the same
conclusion as
the judges
below, we
cannot say
that the
district court
committed
clear error.
The conditions
of release
contain
provisions
that impede
defendants’
ability to
engage in
criminal
activity, and
the evidence
to which the
government
points us and
which we have
otherwise
gleaned from
the record is
inadequate to
leave us with
a firm
conviction
that the
district court
erred in
finding those
conditions
sufficient to
assure public
safety. * * *
For the
foregoing
reasons, we
AFFIRM the
order of the
district court
and VACATE the
stay
previously
entered in
this matter."
Judge Newman
dissented.
Watch this site.
On
June 23, after
the defendants
were remanded
on June 5, a
three judge
panel heard
more extensive
arguments,
which Inner
City Press
also live
tweeted, here
and below.
On June
29,
Urooj
Rahman was arraigned
on the
indictment.
Inner City
Press live
tweeted
it:
Live tweeted thread of appeal argument here.
On
June 2,
the appeal was filed, full
text on
Patreon here.
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