| Waggoner
Sentencing for
Night Club Gun
Delayed As
Pushing of Old
Man Weighed
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 1 – Rodney
Waggoner
served two
years for
pushing
71-year old
man onto the
sidewalk
outside a
liquor store.
Then,
as a felon, he
was caught
with a gun in
a nightclub on
June 2, 2022.
The
prosecutors
want him
sentenced to
30 to 37
months in
prison.
Waggoner's
Federal
Defender
proposes time
served, noting
that
Waggoner's
father, a
trucker, was
in jail and
then distant.
His
mother took
him out of
Catholic
school and he
was abused in
public school
for not
joining a
gang. He was
chased by men
with a machete
and so got the
gun he was
arrested in
the nightclub
with.
The sentencing
was set for
August 14.
But
on August 11
Judge John P.
Cronan
postponed it
to September
20 at 10 am,
asking for
briefing on
"correct
application of
the
Guidelines, in
particular,
whether his
prior
conviction for
violation NY
Penal Law
120.05(12)
qualifies as a
crime of
violence under
USSG
4B1.2(a)."
The
case is US v.
Waggoner,
22-cr-557
(Cronan)
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