| In Drug
Case US Brings
Wrong Freddy
Espinal to
Court then
Apologizes For
Trial in April
2024
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 12 – Clisandro
Mendez and six
co-defendants
were ordered
to appear in a
consolidated
drug case on
May 11, for a
trial date to
be set.
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Jesse M.
Furman was
presiding in
large
courtroom 318
in 40 Foley
Square. Inner
City Press was
there and
covered it.
Two of the
defendants
were brought
in by US
Marshals. But
one, it
emerged, was
the wrong
Freddy
Espinal. The
Assistant US
Attorney said
he had not
been aware
there were two
Freddy
Espinals in
the Hudson
County
Correctional
Facility.
While setting
trial for
April 2, 2024,
Judge Furman
told the AUSA
to file a
letter
explaining
l'affaire
Freddy
Espinal.
Inner
City Press
waited to
publish until
it was:
"The
Government
respectfully
submits this
letter to
explain why
defendant
Freddy Espinal
was not
produced for
the status
conference
held on May
11, 2023. In
ordering the
defendant to
be produced
for today’s
conference,
the
undersigned
AUSA
incorrectly
copied the
USMS register
number for
Franck
Espinal, who,
like defendant
Freddy
Espinal, is
detained at
Hudson County
Correctional
Facility, and
who appeared
in the
Government’s
internal log
of federal
prisoners held
at Hudson
directly above
defendant
Freddy
Espinal. The
Government
sincerely
regrets its
error."
The
case is
US v. Ornelas,
et al.,
22-cr-552
(Furman)
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