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Murder DOJ Capital Case Review Under Biden
Will Not Delay SDNY Trial
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 30 – Two men are charged
with conspiracy and the murder
of Daquan Cooper in The Bronx
on June 25, 2015.
But on November
30 a motion to join their
trials together and delay it
pending the Department of
Justice Capital Case review of
the second defendant was
denied.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein
held the proceeding. Inner
City Press covered it.
The US
Attorney's office has a
superceding indictment adding
Kyle Mullings to Jose
Rodriguez, and seemed to
assume that Rodriguez' trial,
set for January 19, would be
delayed as they sought Capital
Case review if DOJ will seek
the death penalty for
Mullings. (Rodriguez has
already passed through and
been spared by that
review).
But Judge
Hellerstein, after asking if
the US Attorney would not wait
for the next Administration
before filing for Capital Case
review, denied the US
Attorney's motion to delay
Rodriguez' trial.
He said it is
difficult to get a trial date
these days, and no one know
how long the wait will
become.
For
now, Mullings is listed in
PACER in the same case as
Rodriguez. But that may
change.
This case is US
v. Rodriguez, 19-cr-779
(Hellerstein)
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