| SDNY Judge Rakoff Expedites
Discovery and Bond Hearing For Lizarraga
Bricks on Bus Case
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 26 – Karen Lizarraga
had not one but two court
proceedings on December 26 in
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York. Charged in connection
with four bricks of heroin and
fentanyl moved by bus from
California to New York,
Lizarraga was presented at 2
pm in the SDNY Magistrates
Court before Magistrates Judge
Barbara Moses.
A bail hearing was scheduled
before Judge Moses for
December 30. Then Assistant US
Attorney Brett Kalikow
announced that there was a
2:30 pm arrangement nine
stories above before District
Judge Rakoff. No one asked to
exclude from the Speedy Trial
Act the 15 minute difference.
But
upstairs Judge Rakoff did not
agree to give the US
Attorney's Office a month to
produce discovery, limiting it
to two and a half weeks. He
also asked why the bail
hearing was before the
Magistrate Judge and not him,
in order to avoid appeals
issues.
The bail or bond
hearing was transferred to him
and a schedule established,
for January 30 at which time
Judge Rakoff said a trial date
will be set. Call it the
rocket docket, compared to
others in the SDNY. The case
is US v. Lizarraga, 19-cr-905
(Rakoff).
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