| For US
v Doe Inner
City Press Was
Asked To Leave
Now No SDNY
Docket Number
or Basis
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 26 – A
defendant was
processed for
fifty minutes
in a sealed
proceeding on
May 25, 2023
in the
Magistrates
Court of the
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New
York.
Inner
City Press,
the only media
in the SDNY
Mag Court,
asked that the
docket number
and basis for
sealing be put
on the record.
The
answer was,
"No."
Others
remained in
the courtroom
-- two
Assistant US
Attorneys, who
before the
sealing were
discussing
"suretors,"
implying that
that defendant
was being
charged and
released on
bond, and at
least one
lawyer beyond
the one who
represented
the
defendant.
The lawyer who
represented
the defendant
loudly
explained why
he had not yet
effectively
filed pro hac
vice papers,
that the state
at issue
required five
days to give a
certificate of
good standing.
Only Inner
City Press
left, and the
courtroom door
was locked
behind
it.
The
proceeding was
not short.
It
took fifty
minutes,
during which
time in the
hallways
outside the
courtroom
Inner City
Press struck
up a
conversation
with the
defendant in
the next case,
and witness
what seemed to
be a
controversial
celebrity
emerge from
the US
Attorney
Office's
doorways down
the hall.
More
detailed on
Substack here.
On
the morning of
May 26, Inner
City Press
wrote to
Magistrate
Judge Gabriel
Gorenstein
requesting the
docket number,
basis of
sealing - and
who requested
the sealing.
Past 6 pm,
Judge
Gorenstein
ruled: "The
Court made
findings, in a
sealed
transcript,
justifying the
sealing of the
case name and
docket number
and the
closure of the
courtroom in
accordance
with the
requirements
of case law.
See Waller v.
Georgia, 467
U.S. 39
(1984); US v.
Alcantara, 396
F.3d 189, 200
n.8 (2d Cir.
2005).
Accordingly,
the relief
requested in
this letter is
denied. SO
ORDERED,
Gabriel W.
Gorenstein, US
Magistrate
Judge, May 26,
2023."
Letter
now on Inner
City Press'
DocumentCloud
here
- for now, the
only record of
this case. So
who requested
the sealing?
The
case, for now,
is US v. Doe,
xx-cr-xx
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