By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC-Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN NY Mag
SDNY COURT Exclusive, May 4 – A man who caught COVID in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn while on pre-trial detention on bank fraud charges was "jumped and stabbed by a group of angry inmates who objected to his presence on their unit."
They wanted him out or quarantined and so that stabbed him.
On May 4, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Paul G. Gardephe held an in-person sentencing proceeding for the man, Robert Tramel Jacquan Richards. Inner City Press covered it.
Judge Gardephe ran though the facts that Richards had pleaded guilty to, including cashing false checks in Flushing Bank ($81,000) and Wells Fargo. He said Richards' father had been addicted to crack and absent, and mentioned Richards three children - one of whom, a baby, appeared to be in the courtroom gallery.
Given his criminal history, Richards faced a guidelines sentencing of 30 to 37 months.
Citing the conditions in the MDC - including the stabbing - Judge Gardephe varied downward to two years, to be followed by three years of supervised release.
The case is US v. Richards, 20-cr-397 (Gardephe)
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