| Cy Vance
Prosecutor Seeks $20,000 Bail From Cancer
Woman Stealing $3 From Duane Reade
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Podcast
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MANHATTAN
CRIMINAL COURT, Aug 18 – Inner
City Press, which daily covers
the Federal but not state
courts, had heard that cash
bail was on the way out in New
York.
But on August 18,
rushing from the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York to
Manhattan Criminal Court for
the arraignment of Ken Kurson,
it did not turn out that
way. In the
arraignment part a Ms. Nelson
was in the dock, represented
by Neighborhood Defenders
Service of Harlem.
She was quoted,
while being arrested, at
telling the police officer,
"So youire arresting me for
something that cost three
dollars." Mentioned was Duane
Reade.
The
prosecutor, working for Cy
Vance who elsewhere issued a
wuote about Kurson ("We will
not accept presidential
pardons as
get-out-of-jail-free cards for
the well-connected in New
York"), asked for $20,000 cash
bail.
Ultimately,
only because a NDS social
worker was also in the gallery
with Inner City Press, and
said she would take Ms. Nelson
directly to drug rehab at
Cornerstone (a program also
much cited in Supervised
Release proceedings in the
SDNY), Ms. Nelson did not have
to come up with the cash or go
to Rikers.
Perhaps it was
her lawyer saying she has
Stage 1 cancer and has started
chemo, that Rikers could be a
death sentence.
Perhaps it
was adding in a 28 day
in-patient program after
Cornerstone.
Ms. Nelson
did not have to put up the
money. But Cy Vance's
prosecutor sought it. Watch
this site. (and this
podcast, including about
no Press or public allowed in
EDNY courtroom for US v.
R.Kelly)
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