| Felon
Detained for
Gun in Bronx
Safe Wanted to
Go Home Now US
Asks 79 to 97
Months
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 9 – Deron
Boone was
arrested in
1924 Webster
Avenue in The
Bronx on
February 14,
2023 for
having a gun -
in a safe -
while a
felon.
On
August 22,
2023 Boone
appeared
before U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Paul G.
Gardephe.
He
pleaded not
guilty to the
indictment,
and was
seeking a
change of
counsel.
Judge
Gardephe, who
had asked the
day's CJA
counsel to be
present in the
gallery where
Inner City
Press also
was, explained
to Mr. Boone
that the state
and federal
systems work
differently.
Separate
sovereigns, he
said. Was
Boone sure he
wanted to
change
counsel?
After some
whispering, he
was not. He
said he just
wanted to go
home. He
already served
more than a
decade for a
gun-related
parole
violation.
He
was given
until
September 29
to make
motions - was
there probably
cause to
search his
safe? - and
Speedy Trial
Act was
excluded.
Jump
cut to
December 26,
when the US
submitted a
post-hearing
brief opposing
Boone's
counsel's
motion to
suppress. The
prosecutors
say the
housing
project
apartment's
leaseholder
Benjamin
Fortune had
authority to
let NYPD
search Boone's
room - and
that Boone
"did not
object to
Fortune's
authority to
consent to the
search."
On
April 10,
2024, Judge
Gardephe set
the trial for
May 13: "ORDER
as to Deron
Boone: Trial
is scheduled
for May 13,
2024."
And
on May 16 he
was found
guilty: "JURY
VERDICT as to
Deron Boone
(1) Guilty on
Count 1...
ORDER as to
Deron Boone.
This case
proceeded to
trial on May
14, 2024, and
the jury
returned a
guilty verdict
today. Any
post-trial
motion will be
filed by June
10, 2024. The
Government's
opposition
papers are due
by July 1,
2024. The
Defendant's
reply papers,
if any, are
due by July 8,
2024. The
Probation
Department is
directed to
prepare a
pre-sentence
report.
Sentencing is
scheduled for
September 16,
2024
On
September 9
the US
Attorney's
Office wrote
in asking for
"a sentence of
imprisonment
toward the top
of the
Guidelines
range of 78 to
97 months."
The
case is US v.
Boone,
23-cr-427
(Gardephe)
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