By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC-Guardian UK - Honduras - NY Mag
SDNY COURTHOUSE, July 11 – Manuel Enrique Yates was arrested after drug sniffing dogs indicated narcotics in his tractor trailer which had just made a drop off in The Bronx. On July 11, 2022 his jury trial began before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald. Inner City Press went and covered it, the only media (and only person) in the courtroom gallery. Yates is representing himself. Judge Buchwald told the jurors that what he will say, in cross examining witnesses, is not evidence. The docket shows that Yates moved on August 16, 2021 to fire his CJA counsel. A new counsel was appointed on November 19, 2021, then another on November 29. On June 22, 2022 his counsel "withdrew." A Faretta was held on June 28. And now, he is representing himself. The case is US v. Yates, 21-cr-260 (Buchwald).
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