| All Upcoming SDNY Trials Pushed to
April 27 Press Access To Phone and Video
Hearings Unclear
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 13 -- A order staying
all upcoming trials until
April 27 in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York went onto
the docket past 6 pm on
Friday, March 13. Inner City
Press has uploaded it here.
The order,
by SDNY Chief Judge Colleen
McMahon, extended the Speedy
Trial Act time on all criminal
cases in the District to April
27.
Things
will remain the same, however,
for criminal presentments in
the SDNY Magistrates Court,
which Inner City Press stayed
covering until past 6 pm on
March 13. Despite rumors, the
order wisely does not seek to
restrict press access to the
courthouses or proceedings.
Chief
Judge McMahon's order
encourages court hearings by
telephone and video. It does
not explain, however, how the
press will have the access to
which it is has a right, in
order to inform the public, to
such hearings. We aim to have
more on this: watch this site.
Earlier
on March 13 a well placed
defense lawyer in the SDNY
told Inner City Press that
"the jails are being closed
for 30 days."
Further
inquiry by Inner City Press
with other SDNY lawyers
confirmed "no legal or medical
visits for thirty days,
nationwide." Several defense
lawyer told Inner City Press
it is an outrage and will
undermine their clients'
rights.
A quick
check-in at the SDNY
Magistrates Court found an
Assistant US Attorney arguing
for the remand to the
Metropolitan Correctional
Center of a defendant named
Sepulveda.
Earlier on
March 13 SDNY Magistrate Judge
Ona T. Wang, with Inner City
Press the only
media in the Mag courtroom,
said without the court
reporter transcribed that
"This court will remain open
[albeit] with social
distancing."
Also on March 13
in SDNY Courtroom 15A Inner
City Press came up a witness
testifying by video to a
Federal trial elsewhere,
seemingly to avoid travel. The
times they are a changing.
Watch this site.
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