| Witness Against Jamaica Drug
Boss Coke Asks SDNY Judge Koeltl To Stay His
2d Return
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 3 – On January 21 a
petitioner calling himself
John Doe made a sealed filing
in the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York.
Even as later
released, the petition is so
heavily redacted it does not
name the country where the
possibility of torture is
being alleged.
On April 3 the came up for a
hearing before SDNY Judge John
G. Koeltl, and Inner City
Press was the only media to
cover it. The country is
Jamaica, and the allegation is
that Doe, or Sean B. (his last
name was said in the
proceeding but Inner City
Press is voluntarily not
publishing it), was returned
to Jamaica and was chased down
the street.
Now
after an adverse decision in
the Eleventh Circuit, Sean B.
/ Doe faces turning himself in
to ICE for deportation on
April 20. Judge Koeltl asked
why he and his lawyers are not
appealing to the Supreme
Court, and seaking a stay from
the Eleventh Circuit.
In
the meanwhile, Koeltl urged
that Criminal Division of the
U.S. Attorney's Offic,e which
used Sean B.'s testimony
against drug trafficking
Christopher Coke, to take
another look. He said he would
eventually be writing a
decision, but that sometimes
litigation is not the way to
go. But where will Sean B go?
The case is Doe v. Wolf, et
al, 20-cv-550 (Koeltl).
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