| Cooperator
Bit His Wife While Awaiting 5K Letter So
Remanded in SDNY, Now Appeal?
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY MAG COURT
EXCLUSIVE, Nov 21 - In
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York on November 21, a
detention or release
proceeding was held by
Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang
on a cooperator, awaiting
sentencing on January 4, who
was charged with abusing his
wife and biting her (according
to Assistant US Attorney
Matthew Shahabian).
Inner City
Press was there, the only
media in the Mag Court. So was
the wife, and at the end, two
children.
The
defendant, Luis Benitez,
testified as a cooperator in a
trial in June 2022 before
Judge Analisa Torres. His
cooperation agreement required
him to violate no laws. But he
was arrested for what his
lawyer John Kaley called a
"domestic incident." More on
Patreon here,
including about the trial
Benitez cooperated in, which
Inner City Press also covered.
Kaley said
the children had stayed
downstairs in a car service,
to not see their father in
shackles. But Judge Wang said
she had had children in her
courtroom before.
After Judge Wang
ordered Benitez detained until
his January 4 sentencing, she
summoned Mrs. Benitez back
into the Magistrate Judges'
robing room.
When they
re-emerged, Kaley asked for
reconsideration. But Judge
Wang said no facts had
changed. The children were
brought in, and Benitez told
them, in Spanish, see you in
January.
AUSA
Shahabian did not say in the
domestic "incident" and the
biting he described would
cancel or modify any 5k.1
letter for lenient sentencing.
Kaley said he
would be
apparently to
Judge Torres,
as early as
November 22.
Watch this
site.
The case is US v.
Benitez, 19-cr-201 (Torres)
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