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Before 6ix9ine Sentencing Young Gets 20 Years From Judge Engelmayer For 80 Kilos and Shooting Snow

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Scope Thread
The Source - XXL - The Root - Vibe, etc

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 2 – Two weeks before the sentencing of Tekashi 6ix9ine, on December 2 SDNY Judge Paul A. Engelmayer sentenced his initial co-defendant Aaron Young to 240 months or 20 years.

   The prosecutor Michael Longyear pointed to the volume of drugs (80 kilos) that cooperator Kristian Cruz implicated Young in, and to the shooting of Snow. From the US sentencing submission:

"on January 19, 2018 the defendant and Cruz met another Nine Trey member, known as 'Snow,' at a bar in Brooklyn. After Cruz left the bar, the defendant [Aaron Young] shot Snow in the back of the neck at near point-blank range. Miraculously, Snow survived the shooting."

  Aaron Jones' laywer Aaron Mysliwiec on the other hand argued that Jones was born addicted to crack and has an IQ below 70. Social worker Shreya Mandel's mitigation report has been filed entirely under seal, at least for now. Inner City Press live-tweeted the sentencing, here - and will similarly live-tweet that of 6ix9ine on December 18, this sentencing of Aaron Young. Watch this site and this twitter feed @InnerCityPress.

 Video of the car-jacking of Tekashi 6ix9ine shown as evidence in the trial of Aljermiah "Nuke" Mack and Anthony "Harv" Ellison which Inner City Press put online on YouTube (here with 83,000 views) has been subject of a complaint, YouTube informed Inner City Press on October 19.

  And in further digging Inner City Press has learned that at least two weeks before the December 18 re-scheduled sentencing of 6ix9ine / Daniel Hernandez, he is required by his plea agreement to file amendment tax returns and to pay or agree to pay. (This while others' plea deals, like OneCoin's Konstantin Ignatov, are withheld). Inner City Press will stay on these cases.

  Many legal questions are raised here. If a song is playing when a crime is committed, on video - as here in the car of 69's drive Jorge Rivera, can the video be played? Or censored, even partially or temporally - as for now seems to be happening with sentencing that have followed the guilty verdicts on Harv Ellison and Nuke Mack, leading up to 6ix9ine's in December?

The jury on October 3 returned a mixed verdict, see below. Daniel Hernandez / Tekashi 6ix9ine who testified for three days against them is now set to be sentenced on December 18 at 10 am, with the government's submission including under Section 5K1 due on December 11 or before.  Inner City Press tweeted the order here, and the underlying submission rules here.

  On October 17 co-defendant Jamel Jones was set to be sentenced, initially at 2:30 pm, then 9:45 am. Inner City Press inquired into having a live feed into the SDNY Press Room, as was the case for the sentencing of Roland Martin. But it was not done.

  At 9:45 am Jamel Jones' family members were in Judge Engelmayer's courtroom, but not Jamel Jones himself. Later he was brought in by Marshals and the proceeding began. It turned out he and his lawyer had not been given an opportunity to in writing address what the US Attorney's letter said was shown at trial, that Jim Jones spoke of "violating" 6ix9ine and Jamel Jones said "super violate."

   Inner City Press tweeted, as it did during the trial and the Roland Martin sentencing, here. Then Judge Engelmayer said, Mr Smallman tells me someone is tweeting. Who is it?

  Inner City Press immediately said, Me, adding that it had asked for a live feed into the Press Room.

  Judge Engelmayer said that if request for live feed are made they are granted. But it wasn't in this case. Inner City Press immediately shut down its phone, power off. An Assistant US Attorney came in and started using her phone, as has always been the case. She was told to turn it off.

   Now will less detailed information we report that Judge Engelmayer told Jamel Jones that he, unlike Roland Martin, had not renounced Nine Trey. That it was too late in life to use lack of a father figure as an excuse. (In fairness, Judge Englemayer later called out the father in the gallery.) Ultimately Judge Engelmayer imposed a full 135 month sentence on Jamel Jones, more than 11 years.

  While some might not like it compared, many white collar criminals in the SDNY are given light or time served sentences. This is one of the many reasons that detailed, real time reporting of these sentencing should be encouraged, not stopped and penalized. As Inner City Press left the courtroom, it was asked for its name and business card and was told that an "incident report" will be made. We'll have more on this.

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