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Former prosecutors write court in support of bail for lawyers accused of throwing molotov cocktail
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56 former prosecutors write to appeals court in support of bail for lawyers accused of throwing molotov cocktail at police vehicle
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56 former prosecutors write to appeals court in support of bail for lawyers accused of throwing molotov cocktail at police vehicle
By Shayna Jacobs
June 16, 2020 at 10:04 p.m. EDT
NEW YORK — Over 50 former federal prosecutors are urging an appeals court to cast aside the government's ongoing detention bid for a pair of activists — attorneys by trade — charged in a molotov cocktail attack on a marked police car, on a violence-ridden night of protests after the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.
Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, both lawyers, had been freed on home detention, on $250,000 bonds, collateralized by family and friends, until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit revoked their bond on June 5 pending a decision on whether bail should be reinstated following a strong push by the government on the basis that the defendants were a continual danger to society. They were taken back into custody that day.
The U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York has twice appealed a June 1 bail decision made by a magistrate judge, arguing throughout that Mattis and Rahman could not be trusted to remain at liberty.
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Shayna Jacobs
Shayna Jacobs is a federal courts and law enforcement reporter on the national security team at The Washington Post, where she covers the Southern and Eastern districts of New York. Follow https://twitter.com/shaynajacobs
56 former prosecutors write to appeals court in support of bail for lawyers accused of throwing molotov cocktail at police vehicle
By Shayna Jacobs
June 16, 2020 at 10:04 p.m. EDT
NEW YORK — Over 50 former federal prosecutors are urging an appeals court to cast aside the government's ongoing detention bid for a pair of activists — attorneys by trade — charged in a molotov cocktail attack on a marked police car, on a violence-ridden night of protests after the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.
Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, both lawyers, had been freed on home detention, on $250,000 bonds, collateralized by family and friends, until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit revoked their bond on June 5 pending a decision on whether bail should be reinstated following a strong push by the government on the basis that the defendants were a continual danger to society. They were taken back into custody that day.
The U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York has twice appealed a June 1 bail decision made by a magistrate judge, arguing throughout that Mattis and Rahman could not be trusted to remain at liberty.
{snip}
Shayna Jacobs
Shayna Jacobs is a federal courts and law enforcement reporter on the national security team at The Washington Post, where she covers the Southern and Eastern districts of New York. Follow https://twitter.com/shaynajacobs