| SDNY Trial of Rollin' 30
Crips Has Social Media Exhibits Fight Amid 10
Hour Cross of Cooperator
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 10 – A Bronx based gang
racketeering conspiracy was
the subject of a sealed
complaint against five
defendants signed on November
9, 2016 by Magistrate Judge
Sarah J. Netburn of the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New
York.
Later the
indictment grew to nine
defendants - and on February
6, 2020 opening arguments
began in the trail of three of
the defendants, the last three
standing so to speak: Randy
Torres, Charles Ventura and
Walston Owen, each with an
a/k/a nickname and soon to be
on a Facebook.
Inner City
Press was the only media in
the courtroom of SDNY Judge
Victor Marrero as he
instructed the jury, first
telling them he wanted to
begin at 8 am then saying it
was not possible due to
another higher profile case in
the SDNY (US v. Schulte, the
CIA leaks case Inner City
Press is also
covering).
On February
10 an issue arose in the trial
concerning a juror who spoke,
alone, to Judge Marrero at the
end of the day. Judge Marrero
proceed to call all counsel
forward for a whispered
sidebar that has yet to be
explained. Before that,
defense counsel was cross
examining a cooperator named
Nathaniel Rodriguez, and says
there will be a full day of
same on February 11. Meanwhile
the prosecution in push for
admission of their Social
Media Exhibits. Inner City
Press will stay on this.
Back on February
6 Assistant US Attorney
Jacqueline Kelly pointed at
each of the three defendants,
and described crimes including
at a September 2015 "rap video
shoot." Then there was a
witness from Facebook, Michele
Ilich Daubas, authenticating a
defendant's Facebook page.
Inner City Press will at much
as possible follow the case,
including a who's-who of the
CJA bar. The case is US v.
Torres, et al., 16-cr-809
(Marrero).
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