Posted on 06/15/2015 6:52:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Manhattan man has spent nearly all of the past seven years locked up on Rikers Island awaiting trial — a dubious record for pretrial incarceration that is not likely to end anytime soon, experts told The Post.
Carlos Montero, now 24, was with two pals when one fatally stabbed a man and the other slashed another during a robbery in Washington Heights on Oct. 23, 2008, authorities have charged.
Montero, who has spent six years and eight months in Rikers, attempted to get his case tried separately — while one of his alleged cohorts fights the DNA evidence — but the judge balked, and his lawyer won’t even seek bail for him now because he says it’s a lost cause.
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The formality of a trial obviously isn’t needed.
Guilty before proven innocent. Just like with the IRS or the military.
$167,000 a year to keep this kid in jail.
These stories are ridiculous. Talk about justice delayed is justice denied.
The story about the other guy, the one who killed himself, was even worse. He sat in jail for 3 years over the charge of stealing a backpack and punching a guy in the face, and then the charges were dismissed.
Now, it seems to me like he was a very troubled person, but I doubt that even if he’d been tried and convicted that he’d have been sentenced to three years on those charges.
Oh they mean New York City, the city that is run 100% by liberals?
The name brings up the question, legal, or illegally here?
Can’t even the worst public defender go to a judge on this type of thing.
His so called lawyer has an obligation to his client To request bond. The client is entitled to a bond hearing. If the lawyer wont act, this guy should ask for another lawyer, which he can ask for, but not necessarily get. The client should file a grievance with the bar for abandoning representation. Sounds like the lawyer is lazy.
I guess one could always vouched for him, post bond for him take him home to live with them.
So he can spend the time till trial a free man.
So much for the right to a speedy trial.
“So much for the right to a speedy trial...”
Depends on the definition of “speedy”, which is purely dependent upon some judge’s decision as to what speedy means.
Any reasonable judge would agree that waiting 7 years for a trial is NOT a speedy trial.
The lawyer is incompetent. Is habeas corpus something that he didn’t learn about in law school?
But then again, this is caesar’s court and caesar’s rules. The right to a speedy trial exists, except when it doesn’t.
Exactly. Sounds like a habeas corpus thingie.
Why would a lawyer delay even seven years? Several reasons. Witness die or move and can't be located to testify, evidence gets missing, public looses interest and most don't recall the crime, etc. Ineffective Counsel is the new Get Out Of Jail Free Card. The man should have been tried more than six years ago. He'll be a free man likely in less than a year and no conviction.
Yeah who cares!
Cuomo daddy and son
The shame is that his ‘pal’ has put off the trial for all this time!
Wow!
This is a violation of his constitutional rights.
It doesn’t matter what the law in NY says, the USA constitution (6th amendment) says you have a right to a speedy trial and this is the opposite.
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