| In SDNY Saipov Asks Judge
For Weekly Legal Calls Amid Coronavirus in MCC
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
Honduras
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Source - The
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 7 – Sayfullo
Saipov faces a trial that may
result in the death penalty
for killing eight people with
a van along the West Side
Highway.
Now in
April 2020 amid the
Coronavirus pandemic Saipov
wants at least weekly legal
calls until legal visiting
resumes in the MCC. The US has
asked until April 10 to
respond. Meanwhile on April 7
Inner City Press heard from
another judge about a possible
laptop link between the
Attorneys Lounge in 500 Pearl
Street and the MCC, here.
Inner City Press will continue
to cover this, watch this
site.
But at a court
appearance on November 18
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Judge Vernon S.
Broderick, after his Federal
Defender inquired into Saipov
receiving dental care, Saipov
told Judge Broderick he had
not right to judge him.
As Inner City Press recounted
moments later outside the
courthouse on Pericope here
- any use of phones in the
courtroom was prohibited -
Saipov asked Broderick, What
about the thousands or
millions of Muslims killed by
American bombs?
Judge
Broderick replied, I am just
the referee, it is the jury
that will judge you. And it
emerged, that jury might be
anonymous and/or
semi-sequestered.
Much
of the November 20 conference,
delayed by problems with the
sound system for the Uzbek
interpreter, concerned how the
jury will be selected. Some
3000 questionnaires will be
mailed out, asking potential
jurors about hardship but not
disclosing what the case is
about.
Judge
Broderick said, with response
rates to such summons being
being 30%, perhaps it was
better to spring more
information on the prospect
once they were in court.
Federal Defender alluded to an
"incident" in which
unspeficied inappropriate
language was used; Judge
Broderick responded but left
the issue murky. Then Saipov
asked to speak, and did. The
case is US v. Saipov,
17-cr-722 (Broderick).
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