| Bello
Charged With Drugs Asked SDNY To Change
Lawyer Now Motion to Dismiss Denied
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 4 – Andres Bello
is in pre-trial detention in a
narcotics conspiracy case. He
wanted to replace his
appointed
lawyer.
On April 2,
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge P. Kevin Castel held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
Bello's
outgoing lawyer asked if he
had gotten the hard drive of
discovery from the government.
No, was the
answer. The lawyer committed
to mailing it to the incoming
counsel, who was appointed.
Now on September
16, 2021, Bello's and
co-defendants' motion to
dismiss based on the jury pool
has been denied: "Defendants
Humberto Rodriguez, Andres
Bello and Sharrone Lewis move
to dismiss the Superseding
Indictment in this case. They
assert that the grand jury
that returned the Superseding
Indictment did not reflect a
fair cross-section of the
community as required by the
Sixth Amendment to the United
States Constitution and the
Jury Selection and Service Act
of 1968 (“JSSA”), 28 U.S.C. §
1861, et seq. (Docket # 131.)
Specifically, they urge that
Black and Hispanic individuals
were unfairly underrepresented
in the grand jury pool drawn
for the Foley Square
courthouses of this District,
and that a statistical
analysis set forth in the
Declaration of Jeffrey Martin,
a statistician, makes out a
prima facie case that this
underrepresentation was
systematic. Because defendants
have not made out a prima
facie case of systematic
underrepresentation of Black
and Hispanic persons from the
grand jury pool, defendants’
motion to dismiss will be
denied."
The case is US v.
Rodriguez et al., 20-cr-301
(Castel)
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