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On Gun Recovered By Bronx Academy For The Future Suppression Denied Now Plea Mulled

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC-Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN NY Mag

SDNY COURTHOUSE, July 5 –  Dyquan Christopher is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

  On July 5, 2022 U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein held a suppression hearing. Inner City Press attended and covered it.

  On the witness stand in person was an officer who chased Christopher, and picked up a gun after Christopher was tackled on the sidewalk in front of the Bronx Academy for the Future on Southern Boulevard between 174th and 173rd Streets. 

 At issue was whether the gun was found in the pocket of Christopher's Moncler jacket or under him, and whether he said "just take the gun and let me go home." 

Judge Hellerstein asked the prosecutors why he was leading the witness; there followed a sidebar discussion, rare for a suppression hearing without a jury.

At the end on July 5, Judge Hellerstein denied the motion to suppress. And on July 19, Christopher's counsel wrote in that a plea offer is being considered: "Your Honor scheduled a pretrial conference for Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at 3:30 pm, with the caveat that the parties inform the Court if it appeared that the matter was going to be resolved short of trial. We recently received a proposed plea agreement and are scheduled to review it with our client early next week. Therefore, we respectfully request that tomorrow's conference be taken off the calendar for the present time. ENDORSEMENT: The conf. is adjourned and time is excluded until 8/10/22 at 9:30 am; in the interest of justice. ( Pretrial Conference set for 8/10/2022 at 09:30 AM before Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein. )(Signed by Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein on 7/20/2022)."

Inner City Press will continue to follow the case. It is USA v. Christopher, 22-cr-55 (Hellerstein) 

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