| When Courtroom Closure in
2014 Challenge Zoom Video Allowed Reposted by
Inner City Press Here
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 1 – There's been a
challenge to the closure of
courtroom in the 2014 murder
trial of Gigi
Jordan. On June 1,
2020 it was heard by U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Court Judge Sarah
L. Cave. Inner City Press
covered and Tweeted it, here.
And see Zoom here.
Jordan's lawyer said the
ouster of press and spectators
was a "structural error" that
doesn't require showing
harm.
Judge Cave asked if this might
not have been trivial error.
Judge Solomon
ordered all press and
spectators out so that the
prosecutor could accuse Jordan
or her legal team as being
involved in a website called
"The Inadmissible
Truth."
Now
more briefing has been
scheduled. But most
interesting is that despite
the months' long admonition
that no recording of these
virtual proceedings is
permitted and that major
sanctions are threatened, the
parties here recorded, and
said it was at the order of
Judge Cave. The "gallery view"
link did not work, but the
speaker's view here
did.
We'll have more
on this. The case is Jordan v.
Lamanna, 18-cv-10868 (Cave).
Three men in shackles charged
with ATM skimming on
Thanksgiving Eve came into and
soon left the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrates Court.
One had a French
translator and a free lawyer;
the other two retained and
paid their own counsel.
Their names were Mircea
Constantinescu, Alin
Hanes-Calugaru and Dragos
Diaconu. Each was dressed in
beige prison garb, and each
was described in the
underlying indictment.
Constantinescu "a/k/a 'Sobo'
shipped a credit card
point-of-sale terminal used to
fashion skimming devices from
a shipping facility in or
around Mt. Pocono,
Pennsylvania to Veracruz,
Mexico, on or about June 26,
2018."
Hanes-Calugaru for his part
"installed skimming devices on
an ATM in or around
Canterbury, Connecticut on or
about January 7 and 14, 2017."
Diaconu "used
fraudulent debit cards to
withdraw cash from victim
accountholders' bank accounts
using ATMs in or around
Chattanooga and Ooltewah,
Tennessee or about about June
2 and 3,
2018."
All three were
detained. Two will have a bail
hearing on December 6 before
SDNY Judge Laura T. Swain who
has already denied bond in the
case to Nikolaos Limberatos
a/k/a Nicu Limberto, on the
grounds that the US would not
seek his extradition from
Greece if he managed to flee
there.
Judge
Swain did, however, grant
co-defendant Andrew
Eliopoulos' request to travel
to Pennsylvania for
Thanksgiving.
All three
defendants are slated to
appear before Judge Swain on
January 9, 2020. The case is US
v. Constantinescu, et al.,
19-cr-651 (Swain).
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