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In Bronx Murder Trial Defendant Hopkins Takes the Stand With Geoffrey Berman In SDNY Courtroom

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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 12 – On the second day of 2014 in The Bronx, New York Shaquille Malcolm was repeatedly shot and killed in a building in the Allerton section.

In arraignments that followed, Inner City Press reported that the death penalty was on the table, including as to a co-defendant who has since pled guilty to a superseding indictment, Gyancarlos Espinal.   

On December 11 one of the two remaining co-defendants Arius Hopkins testified and was cross-examined before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.

While Hopkins was questioned by Assistant US Attorney Danielle Sassoon, US Attorney Geoffrey Berman came into the courtroom gallery.

  AUSA Sassoon hammered away at Arius Hopkins a/k/a Scrappy, asking for example, Doesn't his gang the Mac Ballas have rules?

 Hopkins replied, What kind of rules?

  Sasson insisted, Does it have rules, yes or no?

 Hopkins smiled and said, Not necessarily.

  Judge Kaplan admonished Hopkins, and told the jury to disregard portions of Hopkins answers that went beyond the yes or no format of cross examination.

  For example when Sassoon asked Hopkins if he had re-posted on Facebook a photograph of cash and a gun, he replied, Yes and then began a further explanation. Judge Kaplan stopped him and told the jury to disregard everything beyond "Yes."

  On re-direct examination, Hopkins' lawyer Glenn A. Garber asked him why he had re-posted the photo. Hopkins replied he was joking that the wad of one dollar bills in his could not possibly add up to $800 as the original uploader had claimed.

  After the cross examination, in the hall Inner City Press remarked to US Attorney Berman on Sassoon's appellate argument earlier in the day, which it also covered, defending one of Judge Kaplan's sentencings, in a Chinatown brothel finance case.

 "Ten a.m.," he said, clearly aware of the timing of that argument in which the Second Circuit panel had agreed to place Sassoon's argument first so that she could return to the the trial of Hopkins and Theryn Jones a/k/a Old Man Ty.

 Inner City Press waited for the next elevator. The case is US v. Jones, et al., 17-cr-791 (Kaplan).    Watch this site.

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