| Murder in
Mount Vernon Yields 25 Year Guideline With
Career Offender Status Dropped
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 24 – Raheem Jones was
charged with aiding and
abetting a murder in Mount
Vernon. He was assigned a
Criminal Justice Act lawyer,
Mark S. Demarco.
On May 17,
2019 U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Judge Nelson Stephen
Roman relieved DeMarco and
appointed Donna R. Newman as
CJA counsel.
On
November 24, Jones pleaded
guilty to racketeering, and to
the aiding and abetting
murder, with a guidelines
sentence of 300 months or 25
years. Inner City Press
covered the change of plea
proceeding.
During the
proceeding Ms. Newman referred
to an earlier version of the
plea agreement which referred
to Jones as a career offender.
AUSA Andew Fong
Chow quickly pointed out that
was never filed with the
court.
Jones, who said
his first name was Lonzo, was
read his newly-explicit Brady
rights under the Due Process
Protection Act - and then, as
part of this plea, appeared to
waive any Brady violation.
Ms. Newman added
she was not aware of any such
violations in his case.
Sentencing
was set before Judge Roman for
either February 25, or March
4, at 10:30 am.
The case is US v.
Jones, 15-cr-661 (Roman).
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