| Columbia
Student Who
Sold AK-47 and
Meth Gets 5
Years
Probation and
Sealed
Transcript
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 12 – A Columbia student
who sold meth and an AK-47 was
sentenced on May 12 to five
years probation, 12 months of
which are to be intermittent
stays in a halfway house.
The Federal
Defender asked to seal the
transcript of the sentencing,
even though the US Attorney's
Office did not submit any
cooperator's letter under
Section 5(k), but rather a
heavily-redacted sentencing
memo for the defendant, Noam
Halpert.
His five
supporters in the courtroom
gallery gave thumbs-up. Inner
City Press was the only other
person in the gallery. Only
recently, it witnessed and
reported the case of a Bronx
resident sentenced to two
years in prison for buying a
gun to protect his mother, he
said.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Victor Marrero, who
sentenced Halpert, spoke of
seeing the dangers of AK-47 in
the newspaper headlines every
day.
So the
sentencing, and the SDNY
prosecutors' presentation and
redacted sentencing
submission, merit further
inquiry.
The case
is US v. Halpert, 17-cr-447
(Marrero)
More
including
analysis on
Substack here
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