| Calvin Hudson Is Out of MCC
For Loansharking Defense But Kenyatta Stays In
After Plea
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 27-- Calvin Hudson was
detained in the MCC in lower
Manhattan since mid 2019 on
charges including
loansharking. But now as the
time for trial approaches, his
lawyer is unable to meet with
him given the Bureau of
Prisons banning all visits
including legal visits.
By
contrast co-defendant Charles
Kenyatta on March 27 appeared
by phone from Westchester
County Jail with his attorney,
unsuccessfully, see below.
Kenyatta had pled guilty.
For Hudson
to review the discovery in his
case, largely considering of
recorded phone calls converted
into computer audio files,
there is in Hudson's part of
the MCC only one computer for
106 inmates, and it is
directly under the loud public
TV.
Citing
these factors as well as
Hudson's age and the
Coronavirus crisis, on March
19 U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Chief Judge Colleen McMahon
ordered Hudson released into
home incarceration, so he can
help prepare his defense.
Inner City
Press, along in the courtroom
on March 19, had previously
reported on the cases of
Hudson's two co-defendants, here
and here.
Now one of his
co-defendants, Charles
Kenyatta, on March 26
asked to be released pending
sentencing: "as of two days
ago, three corrections
officers at the Westchester
County Jail at Valhalla, where
Mr. Kenyatta is housed, have
tested positive for
Covid-19... The government
opposes Mr. Kenyatta's release
on the ground that Mr.
Kenyatta has already pled
guilty to a crime that
involved threats of violence
to a victim."
On March
27 Inner City Press attended
the in-court portion of the
bail hearing, in Chief Judge
McMahon's 24A courtroom.
Pending a separate article on
legal issues, Spilke argued
that Kenyatta's hyper-tension
poses a danger for him, and
that his crimes were due to
PCP use.
The US Attorney team,
including Maurene Comey,
argued that Kenyatta did not
meet the applicable standard,
adding that he strangled a 15
year old girl in Connecticut.
Kenyatta's
lawyer said his defense on
that will be that the girl's
parents themselves did the
abuse and used intoxicated
Kenyatta as a scapegoat.
Judge McMahon, along with
commenting on the Supreme
Court's case by case review of
what constitutes a crime of
violence (she said that is not
helpful to District Judges)
and on experiments with video
proceedings, ruled that
Kenyatta did not meet even the
lower standard. His sentencing
set for April 21 may be pushed
back. We'll have more on this
case. It is US v. Hudson,
19-cr-496 (McMahon).
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