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After Drugs For Bitcoins on Silk Road Haney Calls MDC A Death Sentence SDNY Venue Questioned

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SDNY COURTHOUSE,  April 8 – Hugh Brian Haney pled guilty to illegally selling drugs on Silk Road on the Dark Web, then converting the 3,800 bitcoins that he made into cash through Coinbase. He is in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn 

 On April 8 the Federal Defenders argued that because Haney should be released amid the Coronavirus pandemic because has a safe place to go.

 While Inner City Press doubts that Federal Defenders which represents many more lower income clients was or is arguing that poorer people should have less chance at release, this is an issue which is coming up in many Covid-19 bail motions: those who live in housing projects or worse are being told by the US Attorney's Office they may be safer in the prisons. 

  As to the MDC, Haney speaking passionately described to U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Jed S. Rakoff another inmate, a Mister  Wustriow who is sick, takes dozens of medicines, but has still not been put in isolation.

    Haney's mother spoke up to say that if a prison was being flooded, prisoners would be let out.

   The Federal Defenders shifted to a habeus corpus argument but noted that since the MDC is Brooklyn in the Eastern District venue would be a problem unless the US Attorney's Office for the SDNY waived it. 

 Judge Rakoff said that in his 45 years of experience in criminal law, as a prosecutor then defense attorney then last 24 years as a judge, he has seen the SDNY US Attorney assert wide venue arguments and so it would be surprising for them not to waive it here. 

 Papers are due by the end of the week with a decision soon thereafter. The case is US v. Haney, 19-cr-541 (Rakoff).

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