| In SDNY Jonathan Torres
Bolted Judge Stein Court Date Says Jail Never
Helped Him
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 3 -- Jonathan Torres
came to court on February 10
set to plead guilty to
Violations fo Supervised
Release. But by all accounts,
he bolted. On
March 3, he was hauled back
before Judge Sidney H. Stein
of the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York.
With Inner City
Press the only one in Judge
Stein's large gallery,
Jonathan Torres raised his
hand and asked to speak for
himself.
His CJA lawyer
Kelley J. Sharkey said she had
advised against it. In fact,
Jonathan Torres after he
bolted had called Judge
Stein's chamber and asked to
speak to the judge.
As Judge
Stein recounted it on March 3,
he had declined to speak to
the defendant without the
presence of his lawyer and
Assistant US Attoreny Jun
Xiang.
But Torres told
Judge Stein's deputy that he
had suffered anxiety, stating
that AUSA Jun Xiang had said
since he was a threat, he
didn't care about the impact
on Torres' family.
On March 3,
to be fair, AUSA Jun Xiang for
the record contested the
detained defendant's account,
saying that he had informed
him he would push for
detention.
Jonathan Torres
on March 3 said in open but
empty court that he has two
children and that
incarceration, even for ten
years, had done thing for him.
His mother recently died. He
wants to turn his life around,
with a residential drug
treatment program.
Judge
Stein thanked him for
speaking, but noted that many
of his problems are due to his
own bad decision. Bolting from
the court decision was one
such decision, and made the
matter more complicated.
Torres
remains detained. His CJA
lawyer Ms. Sharkey declined an
April 14 court date, saying
she would be away just before
then. So it's April 22. The
case is US v. Torres,
11-cr-389 (Stein).
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