| Mykel Mays Sold Crack But Gets Time
Serve Wants To Be Hairdresser Amid
Coronavirus Unclear
By Matthew
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 27 – Mykel Mays was
arrested for selling crack on
Manhattan's Upper West Side
and she made post-arrest
statements about what has
become known as her Drug
Trafficking
Organization.
On April 27
in a proceeding covered by
Inner City Press, U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Andrew L. Carter began
her sentencing proceeding by
ordering sealed the statements
she made when arrested, so
they are not in the public
record.
The
defense lawyer's sentencing
submission, originally filed
with the late Judge Deborah A.
Batts (Rest In Peace), is not
in the public docket - none of
it.
Judge Carter said it should be
refiled with "appropriate
redactions." But that will be
long after the now-concluded
sentencing.
Judge Carter began, before
arguments, by saying he was
leaning toward time served.
The AUSA said, yes, the Office
is recommending a below
guidelines sentence, adding
for the record that the
defendant's DTO sold crack on
West 107-110 Street.
Near
the end of the proceeding the
defendant spoke movingly for
herself, about how horrible it
has been in the MCC prison
during this time. She said
when released she wants to
open a hair salon. Despite
re-openings in other states,
in New York it is unclear when
these can be re-opened.
Judge Carter issued the time
served sentence. Clip clip.
The case is US v. Mays,
18-cr-657 (Carter).
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