| Man
Charged With Taliban Support Now Has March
2021 Trial Date and Federal Defenders
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 14 – After
having
been
arrested
and taken off
a Qatar
Airways flight
at JFK airport,
Delowar
Mohammed
Hossain was presented
on July 26,
2019 before
U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
Magistrate
Stewart Aaron,
charged with
one count of
attempted
provision of
material
support for
terrorism. He
was adjudged
eligible for
free counsel
as was
assigned
experienced
Federal
Defender Amy
Gallicchio.
The US
government
sought, and
got,
detention,
without
prejudice to a
later
application
for release on
bond. The
preliminary
hearing was
set 30 days
out, for
August 26.
Inner City
Press wrote
that it would
have more on
this case,
which had been
assigned the
number
19-mj-6978.
Then
on August 29
Hossain was
brought, still
in chains,
into the 23rd
floor
courtroom of
SDNY Judge
Sidney H.
Stein. His new
lawyer,
retained, was
Steve Zissou.
He began by
informing
Judge Stein
that he last
appeared
before him in
1999, on a
case from
1978. Judge
Stein
deadpanned,
And you still
remember the
day.
(The
case, Inner
City Press can
report, was
USA v.
Chang-Sun,
78-cr-254,
re-assigned to
Judge Stein on
March 18,
1999, from
which
then-Judge
PACER sayeth
not. Hossain's
case is now
19-cr-606; it
was wheeled
out to Judge
Stein by SDNY
Magistrate
Judge
Katharine H.
Parker on
August 26, the
thirtieth day
after
Hossain's
presentment.)
The August 29
proceeding
went quickly.
In the gallery
with six adult
family members
or supporters,
and one baby
with him
Hossain
smiled. Judge
Stein directed
that the
government
provide all
discovery by
September 30.
He set the
next
conference
date for
October 30 at
2:30 pm, by
which time
Zissou is to
say what
motion he
might or might
not file.
Hossein
was taken back
in shackles
into the
holding cell.
Later his
supporters
came out onto
Pearl Street.
We will
continue to
follow this
case, we said
- and we have.
Now
at the cusp of
2020 and 2021,
the defendant
is back with
publicly
funded Federal
Defenders, and
a trial date
of March 24.
That is after
the current
ban on
in-person
trials, and he
has only been
by video. So
he should have
precedent.
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