US Asked 15
Months Prison on Felon with
Gun Now Judge Gives No Jail
Nor Halfway House
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Jan 14 – A defendant arrested
a year ago as a felon in
possession of a firearm, after
a police stop in the Bronx,
was up for sentencing on
January 14 before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Amit Subramanian. Inner City
Press was there.
Back
in July, Judge Subramanian
docketed an order that the two
sides should confer for at
least 30 minutes on whether,
given the defendant's
employment and conduct while
awaiting trial, "continued
prosecution of this case is
warranted."
The US
Attorney's Office wrote in
asking for reconsideration,
which Judge Subramanian said
he found puzzling.
On
January 14 defense counsel
said he is aware of the
Office's position on deferred
prosecutions and did not think
he could get one. He asked for
15 months of home detention -
allowing work and other
activities outside of the home
- rather than the 15 months in
prison the prosecutors asked
for.
The
defendant's mother and sister
spoke; it was explained that
the defendant now works
servicing private planes in an
airport for such planes in New
Jersey (the airport used in
the past by Jeffrey Epstein,
among others).
The front
table floated the idea of
intermittent incarceration,
that is, a halfway house, an
option employed by such SDNY
Judges as Jed S. Rakoff.
Defense counsel said these are
in his experience places with
bad
influences.
Ultimately, after
a break, the sentence was 15
months of home detention and
50 hours of community service
per year, with the judge
saying supervised release will
be under "the watchful eye of
me." The family laughed, the
tension broken.
The case is
USA v. Sprolling, 1:24-cr-147
(Subramanian)
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