| For
Armed Robbery
of East Harlem
Store 9 Year
Plea by
Ballenger
While
Callender
Trial Oct 21
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Aug 14 – Cordell
Ballenger and
Saquan
Callender were arrested and
charged with the August 18
gunpoint robbery of a
convenience store on E. 116
Street in East Harlem.
The two
were in the same Complaint,
but they ended up being
separately indicted and their
cases assigned to different
District Judges.
Callendar
was initially ordered released
on $20,000 bond in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrates Court, which Inner
City Press covers, often the
only media there. That order
was reversed in Part 1.
On October
11 Callender was formally
indicted and his case wheeled
out to new District Judge Dale
E. Ho.
On May 10, 2024,
when Callendar's Federal
Defender wrote in that "the
parties continue to negotiate
a pre-trial disposition" and
will know by June 12.
On June 12, Judge
Ho held a conference - no plea
- and pushed the trial back to
October 21.
On August 14,
Cordell Ballenger in his now
separate case pled guilty
before Magistrate Judge Sarah
L. Cave. She asked, did you or
the co-conspirator have the
weapon? After conferring with
counsel, Ballenger said he had
a knife. His plea agreement is
to 87 to 108 months, 108
months being nine years. His
assigned District Judge Denise
L. Cote has a sentencing
control date of December 12.
His case is US v.
Ballenger, 24-cr-192 (Cote /
Cave)
The case
heading to trial is US v.
Callender, 23-cr-523 (Ho)
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