| Patterson
Told ACS Child Was Sex Trafficked Now Gets 1
Year As Judge Rakoff Reflects
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 16 -- Maurice Patterson
pleaded guilty in January 2011
to selling 50 grams and more
of crack before Judge Jed S.
Rakoff the U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York.
He
reappeared nine years later on
February 21, 2020 in a
Violation of Supervised
Release hearing that lasted
until 7 pm, also before Judge
Rakoff. Inner City Press was
the only media there as
Patterson's text messages to
his daughter telling her to
s*ck his d*ck were
described.
But this time
Maurice Patterson had a white
shoe law firm lawyer, a
sometime CJA, Rita Glavin of
Seward & Kissel. And with
a team of three others
including Brian Paul Maloney
and Sareen Karla Armani, she
made arguments Judge Rakoff
called interesting, including
that harassment in the second
degree -- that is, telling ASC
the mother of his daughter was
sex trafficking her -- is not
in fact a crime for purposes
of the Federal Supervised
Release
provisions.
On May 15
Patterson appeared, by cell
phone, for sentencing. He
asked to speak for himself,
saying, Rita, Rita, let me
talk. He said the mother of
his daughter has another man
in jail on false rape claims.
He dropped an F-bomb, then
said, "Rakoff, listen to me."
Then his phone cut off.
During the
wait for Patterson to call
back in, Judge Rakoff said at
4 pm he would be "sitting" on
the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals by designation. Unlike
many others might, especially
in UN-world, Judge Rakoff did
not pull rank, did not protest
at the defendant speaking for
himself or cut him off.
On
December 16 Patterson and his
counsel appeared, virtually,
before Judge Rakoff again, and
again Inner City Press covered
it. Counsel was asking for an
adjournment to check into a
state law issues concerning
VOSR Specification 7, but
Patterson spoke up and asked
to plead and be sentenced
today. It happened.
Judge
Rakoff remarked that society
had failed its
responsibilities to Patterson,
but also that he had no right
to slap a woman. He sentenced
Patterson to one year,
concurrent; it seems he may go
to Jamaica after that. It was
a proceeding it will be worth
checking the entire transcript
of.
Inner City
Press will continue to cover
this case.
Back
in February a written
submission was requested of
the government on that, while
Glavin traveled to the Bahamas
for some type of legal
conference. Inner City Press
in 2019 inquired, including
directly to Glavin, how it was
possible to represent the
government in one case in the
SDNY and those charged by the
government in other cases,
even if they waive
it. Apparently
David Patton of Federal
Defenders has said that merely
reciting the conflict of
interest, and having it
dismissed by judges, is
enough. But some conflicts are
just conflict. Still, we will
continue to cover this
interesting case. It is US v.
Patterson, 10-cr-94
(Rakoff).
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