| In SDNY Murky Mag Court Murder Case
Against Alvarez Has Same Number As Workers
Comp
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive
Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 28 – While
many even most
cases in the
Magistrates
Court of the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York are
sealed or have
case numbers
given only
later, on August
26
before
Magistrate
Judge Katherine
H. Parker
a defendant
Jose Alvarez
a/k/a Ignatio
Alvarez
was brought in
extradited
from the
Dominican
Republic
charged with the
1999 killing
of Jose Miguel
Mendez, guns
and drugs,
with the case
number twice
given as 13-cr-454.
But
that case
number is for
US v. Raul
Lebron for false
worker's
compensation
claims. The number
was read out
twice on
August 26 -
first when Alvarez
pleaded
guilty, then
after that
when Criminal
Justice Act
lawyer Matthew
Kluger was
appointed as
his counsel.
Inner City
Press asked in
the Mag court
- number
confirmed -
and then
elsewhere
where it has
been directed
in the SDNY,
still no
answer.
There
is a copy of
the complaint
against
Alvarez, photo
here, with
the index
number
13-cr-454,
which is
already taken
up with a closlosed
case judgment
filed October
6, 2014,
photo here.
How can this
happened on a
murder case?
The case is
assigned to
Judge Kimba
Wood, whom the
AUSA said is
unavailable
until after
Labor Day.
Inner City
Press will
have more on
this.
This
despite the
fact that
Criminal
Justice Act lawyer
Irving
Cohen
asked Judge Gorenstein
for two
additional minutes to
read the
complaint to his
client. It
was summarized
as involving
the possession
with intent to
distribute of
100 grams of
crack on June
5, 2019. So
why then is it
listed as
sealed, even
after the
presentment?
Inner City
Press, the
only media in
the
Magistrates
Court for
this, an hour
after a
Michael
Avenatti /
Nike
conference,
which Inner
City Press
live tweeted here,
will continue
to pursue this
and other
mysteries of
the SDNY's
murky Mag
Court.
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