| For Shooting by
NYCHA Project in Chelsea Man
Caught in Connecticut Gets 9
Years in SDNY
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Sept 18 – Damel Thomas was
arrested in Connecticut and
charged in connection with a
shooting on the sidewalk
outside the NYCHA housing
projects on West 26th Street
in Manhattan.
On January 2, he came before
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge James L.
Cott. Inner City Press was
there, the only media in the
SDNY Mag Court.
The
Federal Defender argued that
he did not flee to Connecticut
but rather lived with a
romantic partner there. The
complaint has photos of the
shooting.
After a break
with a new Magistrate Judge in
the robing room, Judge Cott
emerged and ordered Thomas
detained pending trial.
On January 11,
2024, the case was indicted
and assigned to District Judge
Gregory H. Woods.
Jump cut to
September 18, when Thomas who
pled guilty on June 17, was up
for sentencing. The US
Attorney's Office was pushing
for 13 years; the Federal
Defender contested it,
successfully to some degree.
Judge Woods imposed a sentence
of 108 months - nine years.
The case
was US v. Thomas, 23-mj-7652
(Cott)
Now the case is
US v. Thomas, 24-cr-20 (Woods)
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