| Man Charged With Crack and
Guns Had 1st of 2 SDNY Trials Then
Pled Now Lawyer Asks Out
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Aug 26 – Jonathan Torres is on
trial, the first of two this
month. On April 10 before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge John G. Koeltl, jurors
were shown text messages with
objections sustained to
explaining what "WYA"
means. Inner City Press
was there, the only media in
the courtroom.
The
prosecution's expert witness
Alfred Hernandez testified how
crack is sold.
The complaint
describes a vial full of crack
found incident to arrest, in
the 40th Precinct in The
Bronx.
On April 12,
Torres pled guilty. On June
11, sentencing was pushed back
to September 26.
On August 26,
Torres' counsel wrote in that
"to date Mr. Torres has not
had his Pre-Sentencing
interview" - and asking that
he be relieved, for reasons he
said providing more details
about which "would serve no
constructive end."
The case is
US v. Torres, 23-cr-395
(Koeltl)
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