| Espinal Gets In Person
Sentencing and 5 Years For Fentanyl In SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Aug 6 – Carlos Espinal,
up for sentencing on August 6,
asked for it to be in-person.
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Denise Cote granted the
request. Inner City Press live
tweeted it.
Since
family members came, it's in
larger courtroom 23B.
But Federal
Defender Jennifer Willis is by
phone, reading out names. She
is asking for 30 month
sentence; her client has been
incarcerated since arrest last
August, nearly 12 months.
COVID- 19 lockdown in jail
being cited.
Judge Cote tells
those in the courtroom to
raise their mask to cover
their noses, waits while they
do.
Now AUSA
speaking: "five months before
the charged conspiracy, he was
arrested with a large quantity
of narcotics in his
apartment... he's not a
citizen."
Espinal speaks,
his voice quivering. Thanks
the US.
Judge Cote: You
are articulate. Fentanyl
dealing is a scourge. Because
of COVID19, I am going below
the guidelines and sentencing
you to 5 years incarceration.
The case is US v.
Espinal, 19-cr-622 (Cote)
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