| In SDNY A Tale Of Two Drug
Sentencings Judges Abrams and Sullivan Up and
Down
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 9 – Albert
Jiminez-Gonzalez
pled
guilty in
April to
selling more
400 grams each
of heroin,
fentanyl and
cocaine.
His bail was
revoked
and he awaited
sentencing,
which took
place on
August 9. He
had more than
20 friends and
family in the
courtroom of U.S.
District Court
for the Southern
District of
New York
Judge Ronnie
Abrams, and
she noticed.
Jiminez-Gonzalez
said his
months in jail
have taught
him to be a
better son and
uncle and neighbor.
He faced 57-71
months under
the Sentencing
Guidelines, a
book that
earlier on August
9 Circuit
Judge Richard
J. Sullivan
demonstrated
to drug
defendants
Tyquan
Robinson
before saying
he may
well do an upward
departure
from the 10
year mandatory
minimum.
The
difference
appears to be
Robinson's involvement
with a gun,
with a gang,
and even his
rap lyrics.
Jiminez-Gonzalez,
with a
different vibe
and different
trajectory it
seems, got 24 months and
a full five
years of
Supervised
Release. He
asked to
be designated
to Fort Dix in
New Jersey. Robinson, on
the other
hand, had
his sentencing
and probably
upward departure
postponed.
Inner City
Press will
continue to
cover these
cases.
Wander
Reyes
came to the US from
the Dominican
Republic three
years ago
and tried to
find work.
What he found,
and on July 30
was sentenced
to 30 months in
prison for,
was a
conspiracy to
try to rob 15
kilos of heroin
using, among
other things,
a fake police
car.
Before SDNY
Judge
Gregory H.
Woods, Wander
Reyes emphasized
that he is
young and this
just sort of
happened.
Judge Woods, usually
moved by
defendant's
statements, took
issue with
this one.
These things
do not just
happened, he
said, mention zip
ties and fake
guns.
Assistant US
Attorney Celia
V. Woods added
an arrest of
Wander Reyes
for the rape
of a 12 year old.
Judge Woods
said there has
been no
conviction so
he would not
give that
weight. Wander Reyes'
defense
lawyer Zachary
Taylor argued
among other
things that
since Reyes
will in all
probability be
deported after
he serves his
time in US
prison, he
won't pose a
danger "to
Americans."
Still, even
while Judge
Woods said
he expects
an ICE
detainer to be
filed against
Wander
Reyes,
he imposed
three years of
supervised
release. Will
New York State
proceeding on the
rape of 12
year old
charge while
Wander Reyes is in
Federal
prison, or
wait? Or just
forget about it?
Inner City Press
will continue
to follow
these cases.
This case is USA v.
Wander Reyes,
19-cr-192
(GHW).
Back on
July 23 with
the courtroom
nearly full
for a mere
scheduling
proceeding for
Michael
Avenatti,
three stories
beneath a
man was
pleading
guilty and
agreeing to 87
months in
prison in an
nearly empty
courtroom.
There were
only Judge Naomi Reice
Buchwald and
her deputy,
one Assistant
US Attorney,
defendant
Polanco, his
interpreter
and his lawyer
- and Inner
City Press.
The allocution
was not as
smooth as it
might have
been.
Asked
to confirm
that he was
pleading guilty,
Mr. Polanco
said, "What
else can I
do?" This took
some
unwinding: you
could go to
trial.
He said
in Spanish, Tengo
que
ir a juico,
which means, I
have to go to
trial. But one
could also
translate it, I
have to be
brought to justice.
He sold
heroin and
fentanyl to an
undercover
agent. And on
November 5 at
the
same 2:30 pm
he will be
sentenced.
Inner City
Press will
stay on this
and other
cases in the
SDNY.
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