| Fentanyl Defendant In MCC
Might Have Laptop Link With 500 Pearl In Covid
19 Safety Valve
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 7 – Leonardo
Bautista and Jose
Ramirez-Encarnacion were
arrested in December 2019 and
charged in connection with the
sale of one kilogram of
fenanyl on West 50th Street in
Manhattan.
Now Encarnacion
is in the Metropolitan
Correctional Center amid the
Coronavirus pandemic, while
Bautista is out on bail and
sheltering at home.
Both
defendants had a status
conference on April 7 before
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Richard M. Berman. Their
lawyers' senses of urgency
were understandably different.
Bautista's Federal Defender
Christopher Flood asked for
more time to complete an
in-person Safety Valve
proffer, once such in-person
meetings are possible.
Encarnacion's Criminal Justice
Act lawyer Nathaniel Marmur
said he is preparing an
application for
bail. Judge
Berman mentioned that he and
some other SDNY Judges had
discussed there being a laptop
in the Attorneys' Lounge in
500 Pearl Street through which
defense lawyers could confer
with their clients across the
street in the MCC. Marmur said
he is not leaving the house,
for now. (It is unclear to
Inner City Press if the
Attorneys Lounge-to-MCC laptop
connection has been made; we
hope to have more on this.)
While the
bail motion may be heard
before then, the next
conference was scheduled for
June 10. Inner City Press
intends to continue to cover
this. This case is US v.
Bautista, 20-cr-14
(Berman).
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