| Man Who
Threw Rock
After
Psychiatrist
Said No
Sentenced to 8
Months then No
Supervision
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 12 – Gerald Williams was
up for sentencing on a
violation of supervised
release on May 11, 2023.
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.
Williams
was brought in by US Marshals.
The prosecutor said Probation
did not favor any further
supervision, just a period of
incarceration, up to eight
months.
Williams
spoke haltingly for himself,
how he had been turned away
from a psychiatrist and
apparently threw a rock, how
he wanted to go home that day,
right now.
His lawyer
said mental health is his
problems and it is a shame
that the system cannot do more
for him.
That
appears to be the case: he got
eight months in jail. He
looked around the large
courtroom as he was led out,
at the lawyers gathering for
the next case, some defense
counsel laughing with the
prosecutors.
And then
he was gone.
The case is
US v. Williams, 13-cr-580
(Furman)
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