By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
SDNY MAG COURT EXCLUSIVE, Dec 22 - In the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on December 22, a bail or remand proceeding was held by Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein on a 19 year old charged with armed robbery of a smokeshop in The Bronx on May 8, 2022 -- and with having a gun in his bedroom.
Inner City Press was present, the only media in the Mag Court. Related Mag Court live-tweeted thread (more on Patreon here) vlog here
Counsel for defendant Edwin Pozo said his client's father is a porter, who would sign a bond for his son. Counsel for a co-defendant argued that under recent decisions in the Second, Fourth and Eleventh Circuits, Hobbs Act robbery might no longer be deemed a crime of violence.
But Pozo was ordered detained, with a next proceeding before Judge Buchward to whom the case was belatedly wheeled out. (While ordered unsealed, it was still not in PACER an hour after the proceeding).
This case is US v. Pozo, 22-cr-702 (Buchwald / Gorenstein)
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