| After Funding Brothel in
Chinatown Stasior May Not Be Allowed To
Withdraw Second Circuit Appeal
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 11 – David Stasior was
sentenced on October 23, 2018
for financing a brothel on
Henry Street in Chinatown, a
few short city blocks from the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York.
SDNY Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
sentenced him to a year and a
day of incarceration, allowing
for "good time," and to four
years of Supervised Release
during which he was to perform
20 hours of community service
per week.
On
December 11, Stasior's lawyer
Harry Sandick took his appeal
to a panel of the Second
Circuit Court of Appeals but
met with what during the
argument he called a "hostile"
reception.
When Sandick asked for time to
decide whether his client
wanted to withdraw the appeal,
Circuit Judge Robert D. Sack
said he wasn't sure that
withdrawing the appeal would
be possible.
Assistant US Attorney Danielle
Sassoon, nearing the end of a
murder trial before Judge
Kaplan, said that Stasior is
engaged in gameplaying and
should not be allowed to
withdraw his appeal but rather
face a plenary remand as
inquired into by Circuit Judge
Denny Chin.
Sandick said that it would
make no sense for his client,
as a price for seeking to get
the erroneously imposed four
years of Supervised Release
reduced to four, to subject
himself to the risk of Judge
Kaplan imposing an additional
year of incarceration.
But, AUSA Sassoon argued, all
portions of the sentence were
and are interrelated. The four
years of Supervised Release
may have been erroneous, but
it was on that basis that
Judge Kaplan only imposed a
year and a day of
jail.
Circuit Judge Barrington D.
Parker said he found the year
and a day a "shockingly low
period of incarceration," and
asked Sandick about his client
having linked a woman's
sickness to him having sex
with her and then giving or
lending her money.
I'm not
defending that conduct,
Sandick said. But he was told
that was how his brief had
been read. The decision will
be forthcoming. The case is US
v. Stasior, 18-3339.
***
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