by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY EXCLUSIVE, Jan 4 – A man from Uzbekistan subject to a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer was ordered free by a Federal Magistrate judge on January 2 - but the order was stayed for 24 hours to allow appeal. Inner City Press was there, the only media in the courtroom.
Shukurullo Akramov was detained by ICE on December 20 in 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan. On January 2 he appeared before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge James L. Cott, on an alleged Violation of Supervised Release warrant from the Western District of Texas.
Magistrate Judge Cott was told that a written agreement between ICE and the US Marshals meant that Akramov would continued to be held in Marshals' custody - presumably in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn - to allow ICE a chance to pick him back up.
But why wasn't ICE in the courtroom? Judge Cott asked. There was no answer to that. After a break with a new Magistrate judge in the robing room, Judge Cott emerged to order release - and a stay to appeal to the Part 1 Judge, Valerie E. Caproni, with whom he said he had spoken.
The Assistant US Attorney replied that he believed the appeal should and will be to the District Judge in the Western District of Texas.
Judge Cott exprssed surprise, and while declining to overturn his own stay, ordered Akramov produced to the SDNY courthouse at 500 Pearl Street on January 3, he could be released if appeal is not successfully taken.
Inner City Press went to Judge Caproni's courtoom on January 3, but was told the appeal had gone to Texas. There, Chief Judge Alia Moses issued an order saying Judge Cott's, and ordering Akramov transported to Del Rio - via Oklahoma, diesel therapy, we predict.
Inner City Press will remain on this case. It is US v. Akramov, 24-mj-2 (Cott)
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