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Burgos Flashed Gun in The Bronx Then Denied It In Affidavit So Gets 36 Months Covered Live

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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Feb 21 -- Ariel Burgos was freed on bail on gun charges on July 16, 2018, by Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

    The gun incident, Burgos' third or fourth, had taken place on June 17, 2018 in the Clason Point housing project, when a woman called 911 that Burgos was "brandishing a firearm and threatening her family member." Docket 46 at 2.

   Burgos represented by 149th Street lawyer Jonathan Sussman moved to suppress the weapon, with a sworn affidavit stating that "I was not carrying nor brandishing nor possessing a firearm." Then he pleaded guilty. 

On February 21, 2020, Burgos appeared for sentencing before SDNY District Judge Ronny Abrams. During the proceeding, at which Inner City Press was the only media present, Burgos' fiancee spoke movingly about how much she loves him. Sussman said the quoted portion of the affidavit was his fault.

    On a guideline of 46 to 57 months, Judge Abram after a break imposed a sentence of 36 months. She noted the defendant's history, but also recent moves to progress with a GED and a job. Her ruling seeming heartfelt, and there has been no objection to the two tweets reporting it, unlike other in 40 Foley who ordered it to cease, still unaddressed.

   Burgos' fiancee had strikingly said he'd been in danger as a "light skinned man" in The Bronx, and that he was better off now on the Lower East Side. She said she didn't want to see him "caged with animals," since he was not an animal. But who is? The case is US v Burgos, 18-cr-570 (Abrams). 

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