| For
Armed Robbery
of East Harlem
Store
Callender Had
Bail Reversed
Now Trial Oct
21
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Aug 14 – Saquan Callender and
Cordell Ballenger 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, seemingly his first
case, at least criminal case,
in SDNY.
On October 13,
Judge Ho signed and docketed:
"SCHEDULING ORDER as to Saquan
Callender. It is hereby
ORDERED that the parties
appear for an arraignment and
pretrial conference with the
Court on Thursday, October 19,
2023, at 10:30 AM, in
Courtroom 905 of the Thurgood
Marshall Courthouse, 40 Foley
Square (Signed by Judge Dale E
Ho on 10/13/23)."
That courtroom
hadn't been used in some
time...
Jump cut to May
1o, 2024, when Callendar's
Federal Defender wrote in that
"the parties continue to
negotiate a pre-trial
disposition" and will know by
June 12. Judge Ho endorsed it,
noting that if there is not
resolution by June 12, a
motion schedule will be set
then. The July 15 trial was
adjourned to October 7.
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.
Inner City Press was there,
and will be reporting on both
(linked) cases.
The case is
US v. Callender, 23-cr-523
(Ho)
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