| In Sex Trafficking Case
Defendant Gets Judge Engelmayer to Replace
Scolari Still Sealed Kooda B
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 24 – A defendant in a
multi-defendant sex
trafficking case Inner City
Press was covering in March
when COVID-19 canceled the
trial, Justin Rivera, spoke on
June 24 seeking to replace his
lawyers Lisa Scolari and Susan
Walsh, before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Paul A.
Engelmayer.
Judge
Engelmayer asked Rivera to
think carefully if he wanted
to do a change of counsel,
which he implied would be the
last. Rivera insisted he
wanted to make a change, and
that he needs to be released
back to state custody to
finish programs that might
allow him to be released in
February 2021.
But, he was
told, there are few transfers
these days and he should stay
in the MCC to confer with his
incoming lawyer.
Previously, as
Inner City Press reported,
Scolari asked to withdraw as
counsel to Tekashi #6ix9ine's
co-defendant Kintea McKenzie /
Kooda B, citing a conflict of
interest that she wanted
entirely sealed and Judge
Engelmayer upheld, rejecting
an Inner City Press formal
request to unseal, at least
partially.
This case is USA
v. Randall et al., 19-cr-131
(Engelmayer).
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