By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Jan 4 – The case of Gigi Jordan, convicted of the death of her 8-year old autistic son in a trial from which the press was excluded, came back on December 9, 2020 to U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge Sarah L. Cave.
Inner City Press covered in on June 2, here
Next a challenge to the closure of courtroom in 2014 murder trial of Gigi Jordan was being heard by SDNY Magistrate Court Judge Sarah Cave. Jordan's lawyer says the ouster of press and spectators was a "structural error" that doesn't require showing harm.
Judge Cave asks if this might not have been trivial error. Judge Solomon ordered all press and spectators out so that the prosecutor could accuse Jordan or her legal team as being involved in a website called "The Inadmissible Truth."
On December 9, 2020 Gigi Jordan was back, asking to be released from the Essex County jail by Judge Cave. Inner City Press again covered it.
Assistant DA Vincent Rivellese said, "We do believe we have a meritorious appeal... We do intend to retry her if the appeal fails.”
Judge Cave ordered Gigi Jordan freed to home detention, saying to hurry to 500 Pearl Street to get the ankle bracelet put on. That will apparently take place on December 10 at 10 am.
There ws a $250,000 bond, co-signed by three financially responsible people and secured by $100,000 in cash or property, to be perfected in five business days.
Jump cut to the cusp of 2022 - 2023: Gigi Jordan committed suicide by putting a plastic bag filled with nitrogen gas over her head. She was found dead inside her Brooklyn apartment at 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 30 — hours after US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an order that was set to send her back to prison. The NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner ruled the manner of death a suicide on Jan 4 saying the cause was: “Asphyxia by covering of head with plastic bag and displacement of oxygen by nitrogen gas.”
The case was Jordan v. Lamanna, 18-cv-10868 (Cave)
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