| In Trial For Murder of
Bronxite Shaquille Malcolm Scrappy Crossed By
AUSA Sassoon With Berman In Court
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 11 –
On the second day of 2014 in
The Bronx, New York Shaquille
Malcolm was repeatedly shot
and killed in a building in
the Allerton section.
In arraignments
that followed, Inner City
Press reported
that the death penalty was on
the table, including as to a
co-defendant who has since
pled guilty to a superseding
indictment, Gyancarlos
Espinal.
On December 4 the
two remaining co-defendants
Arius Hopkins and Theryn Jones
a/k/a Old Man Ty were on trial
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.
On December
11 the trial culminated with
Arius Hopkins taking the
witness stand to testify on
his own behalf.
He was cross
examined by Assistant US
Attorney Danielle Sassoon,
with other AUSAs and US
Attorney Geoffrey Berman
himself in the gallery along
with, as the only media, Inner
City Press. (The US Attorney's
Office has thrice declined
Inner City Press' request they
make available their admitted
exhibits for this trial and
for the OneCoin trial, still
withheld).
AUSA
Sassoon hammered away at Arius
a/k/a Scrappy: doesn't his
gang have ruled?
He asked,
like what kind of rules?
Does it
have rules, yes or no?
Not
necessarily.
Judge
Kaplan admonished Hopkins, but
it's his life, and if he is
found guilty, it will be his
sentence.
After the
cross examination, in the hall
Inner City Press remarked to
US Attorney Berman on
Sassoon's appellate argument
earlier in the day, which it
also covered,
defending one of Judge
Kaplan's sentencings, in a
brothel finance case.
"Ten a.m.,"
he said, clearly aware.
Inner City
Press waited for the next
elevator. On December 12 the
government may or may not put
on a final rebuttal witness.
Then the closings, no jury on
Friday - and then, one
imagines, a verdict. Inner
City Press will request
notice, and report on it.
Watch this site.
On December 4,
AUSA Sassoon argued that
questions about the song - a
copy of which still does not
appear to have been uploaded
by the US Attorney's Office
unlike with GUMMO and Billy in
the #6ix9ine
trial also known as US
v. Jones - should be
limited.
Such songs
and lyrics are also being used
by the US Attorney's Office in
another SDNY case Inner City
Press has covered,
US v. Darrell Lawrence, et
al., 19-cr-761 (Oetken).
It is an emerging and
accelerating First (and Fifth)
Amendment issue, leading Inner
City Press to raise folk-type
song SDNY questions.
This
case is US v. Jones, et al.,17-cr-791
(Kaplan).
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