| In SDNY Five Coronavirus
Cases In MCC Cited But Vincent Denied Bail For
Danger Based On Video
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 27 – On March 30 defense
lawyer Donna Newman argued to
try to get her client Nasir
Vincent released on bond, due
to Coronavirus COVID-19
spreading in the Metropolitan
Correctional Center in lower
Manhattan.
Newman
told Judge Analisa Torres of
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York that three inmates just
tested positive for COVID-19
from the MCC's 5 South, and
put said the positive tests in
the MCC is at five or higher
while noting that Bureau of
Prisons has not confirmed that
figure.
(As of an hour
after the proceeding, which
Inner City Press apparently
alone covered, the BOP put the
number of positive-testing
inmates in the MCC at three,
and 28 inmates nationwide
along with 24 staff, photo here.)
Assistant US Attorney Justin
Rodriguez repeatedly cited a
video of which he wrote he
would "arrange with the
Court's Chambers for the
transmission of an electronic
version of the video montage,
rather than a physical copy."
The video was and is as of
this writing not in the case's
docket on PACER.
Judge Torres
relied on this video is
denying bond, finding a danger
to the community. Minutes
later, she approved a switch
to CJA lawyer James Branden
for co-defendant Lafone Eley,
without the AUSAs present (but
Inner City Press still
covering the case). The
overall case is US v. Spencer,
20-cr-78 (Torres).
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