| Since Drugs For Bitcoins Haney Is In
Brooklyn SDNY US Attorney Refuses To Waive
Venue
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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COURTHOUSE, April 10 –
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.
But
now on April 10, Assistant US
Attorneys Sam Raymond and Tara
La Morte have declined to
waive venue, writing that "As
Haney is housed in the MDC,
any petition for habeus relief
would need to be filed in the
Eastern District of New York."
So how will Judge Rakoff
address this, by close of
business on April 13?
The case is US v. Haney,
19-cr-541 (Rakoff).
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