Defendant Who Flushed Pants Down Toilet and Missed Trial Gets Stabbing Sentencing Pushed Back

Defendant Who Flushed Pants Down Toilet and Missed Trial Gets Stabbing Sentencing Pushed Back by Matthew & Russell Lee, Patreon Substack 111 CENTRE ST, July 23 – A man who declined to be present at the 111 Centre Street trial in which he was convicted was up for sentencing on July 23. Inner City Press was there.    The defense lawyer, citing a change in sentencing law not yet implemented, asked that his client get the same eight year concurrent on a drug and a stabbing charge. The prosecution disagreed, asking for a consecutive sentence citing a lack of remorse. The defense described the eight-year drug sentence as "ridiculously harsh."    The defendant spoke up for himself, saying that the jury never saw him before convicting him.    That was your choice, Justice Robert M. Rosenthal said. The only day you offered to come, you flushed your pants down the toilet and said you'd come in your underwear.     "Would you like to hear why?" the defendant asked.    No, Justice Rosenthal said. I would have liked to hear it then. Not now.    "You don't care," the defendant said.     Justice Rosenthal said he didn't like having to make decisions about so much of a person's life on the fly. He set sentencing over for August 27.     Four stories down, a defendant charged with attempted murder watched as a detective narrated the video of a person, perhaps the defendant, shooting a gun near Lenox Avenue and 127th Street. That trial continues. For the first defendant, there is only the sentencing, long or longer. *** Your support means a lot. As little as $5 a month helps keep us going and grants you access to exclusive bonus material on our Patreon page. Click here to become a patron. Feedback: Editorial [at] innercitypress.com Mail: Box 130222, Chinatown Station, NY NY 10013 Other, earlier Inner City Press are listed here, and some are available in the ProQuest service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.  Copyright 2006-2026 Inner City Press, Inc. To request reprint or other permission, e-contact Editorial [at] innercitypress.com