| SDNY Judge Berman Polls
Counsel If CourtCall Should Continue After
COVID Pandemic
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 25 – In a two-defendant
case charging cellphone
account takeover fraud, U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Richard M. Berman on
June 25 while awaiting a court
reporter conducted an informal
poll on the impact and future
of phone and video conferences
in the Federal courts. Inner
City Press covered
it.
Judge
Berman said he hopes that even
after the COVID-19 pandemic
passes, phone and video
conferences remain. He said
that even some defendants,
particularly those in custody,
have said they prefer them:
being taken to a room in the
MCC, rather than hours in
holding
cells.
Defense lawyer
Dawn Florio, in this case
representing Henry Perez but
previously covered by Inner
City Press in the Tekashi
#6ix9ine case, said that
telephone conferences are
particularly useful when she
is on trial in other cases.
She says she has a trial
resuming in July, "it was
covered in the New York
Times."
Inner City
Press published an informal
review, from a media
perspective, of the era of
telephone and CourtCall
proceedings, here.
In this case, the AUSA
tactfully said that he
believes other judges, too,
are thinking about this.
This case was put
off into September. It is US
v. Perez, 19-cr-880 (Berman).
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