By Matthew Russell Lee, Periscope video, II III
NEW YORK CITY, February 15 – Canadian Amir Ghahremanpour had already spend eight months in jail for his role in defrauding Apple Stores or acting as a look out as others did. But part of these eight months has been in the heatless MDC Brooklyn, and on February 15 U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Ronnie Abrams took those conditions into account in sentencing Ghahremanpour to time served. He will be deported back to Canada, where a job in a family business awaits him.
He stayed calm and polite even when his defense lawyer was twenty minutes late, trapped he said in a pre trial conference before Judge Caproni downstairs. Abrams asked if the only victim was Apple (yes) and cited a rule that Ghahremanpour's previous conviction in Canada for an improper fire arm - held for a friend, his tardy but affable lawyer said -- could not be considered under the Sentencing Guidelines. It was a refreshingly civil proceeding, for a criminal case. Maybe it's a Canadian thing.
