| In SDNY Jose Rivera Had
Sentence Reduced Now Bailed to Mother's House
on Sex Charges
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 27 –
It's a common name in The
Bronx, Jose Miguel Rivera, but
this is not a common story. He
was sentenced to 60 months in
prison on Federal narcotics
charges by U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Deborah A.
Batts.
Then
his sentenced was reduced to
57 months "based on a
guideline sentencing range
that has subsequently been
lowered and made retroactive
by the United States
Sentencing
Commission."
He was released,
he reported to Probation -
then he was arrested on
charges of sexual abuse of a
minor. On December 10 he
appeared in shackles on a
Violation of Supervised
Released before SDNY
Magistrate Judge Sarah L.
Cave. Judge
Cave told his lawyer, "We're
talking about sexual abuse of
a minor."
Ultimately after a break to
consider the situation Judge
Cave said he could be
released, not to his own home
but to the home of his mother.
In a
letter to Judge Batts on April
Fool's Day 2012, his mother
wrote that he had been a
baseball pitcher until during
a fire at 945 Saint Nicholas
he fell from the third floor
and broke his arm. He ended
working for a company
associated with Verizon, Lisn
Inc.
Sometimes defendant who are
provided conditions of release
do not leave the same day. But
at 7:30 pm, Inner City Press
witnessed Jose Miguel Rivera
being taken to the
courthouse's entrance on Worth
Street and let go. He will
appear before Judge Batts on
January 7. The case is US
v. Rivera, 11-cr-651
(Batts / Cave).
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