| After a
Murder in
Brooklyn Cerna
Marroquin for
Burning Body
Pled Now Lopez
Asks 5 Years
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 10 –
Police found a
burned human
body in
Chester
County,
Pennsylvania
on June 18,
2023. The
decedent was
IDed at
Rolando
Blanco-Duarte.
They tracked
the murder
back to the
Black Horses
Tavern in
Brooklyn, NY
and arrested
Luis
Cerna-Marroquin.
On July 24 he
appeared, in
the yellow
prison
jumpsuit of
the Essex
County
Correctional
Facility,
before U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
John G.
Koeltl. Inner
City Press was
there, the
only media -
the only
person - in
the courtroom
gallery.
The
defendant's
CJA lawyer did
not consent to
excluding time
of the Speedy
Trial Act.
The
prosecutor
replied that
the clock
would only
began to run
upon
indictment. So
far, the only
charges are
Use of
Interstate
Commerce to
Promote
Unlawful
Activity and
Accessory
After the
Fact.
On
March 11, 2024
Cerna-Marroquin
pleaded guilty
to count 1 of
the
superseding
indictment,
that is,
obstruction of
justice. His
sentencing was
set for June
11 at 4:30 pm.
On
April 10, for
the sentencing
of Rodolfo
Lopez, defense
counsel wrote
in asking for
five years on
April 24,
citing his
"traumatic
childhood in
El Salvador."
The
case is US v.
Cerna-Marroquin,
23-cr-360
(Koeltl)
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