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Migrant teen’s lawyer begs for Times Square shooting case to play out in court, not social media —as alleged gunman pleads not guilty
NY Post ^ | 02/27/2024 | Haley Brown , Griffin Eckstein and Steve Janoski

Posted on 02/27/2024 8:31:20 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The migrant teen who allegedly shot a tourist and fired on NYPD officers in Times Square pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of attempted murder — as his lawyer begged the public to let the case play out in court, not on social media.

“This case … has gotten a lot of media attention,” defense attorney Adrienne Doreen Edward said of the Feb. 8 shooting allegedly committed by 15-year-old Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa, of Venezuela.

“I’m asking everybody to let this case play out in the courtroom — not on social media, or in the press, where it has taken on its own identity.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: migrant; shooting; socialmedia; timesquare
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Lawyer sounds like a real winner.
1 posted on 02/27/2024 8:31:20 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She has a job to do. Can’t blame her for trying.


2 posted on 02/27/2024 8:36:18 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“let this case play out in the courtroom — not on social media”

Why not?......it’s good enough for President Trump it’s good enough for this little cockaroach


3 posted on 02/27/2024 8:36:56 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m ok with this playing out in the court room, as long as it is in front of a jury. If the decision is made by a judge without the benefit of a jury then the media has a heightened responsibility to expose an inappropriate decision should one occur.


4 posted on 02/27/2024 8:40:14 AM PST by ChronicMA
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Winner or whiner?

No one asked for this for Derek Chauvin.


5 posted on 02/27/2024 8:44:26 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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To: BenLurkin

If she’s anything like the public defender the defendant had when I sat as a juror this little thug is toast.


6 posted on 02/27/2024 8:45:43 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

OK, you’re entitled to a fair trial.

But you’ll still be found guilty!


7 posted on 02/27/2024 8:47:36 AM PST by proxy_user (W)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Vlad Tepes had some good ideas. Leave their impaled bodies at the border crossings. This is an invasion by military aged violent gangster creeps, not “immigration.”


8 posted on 02/27/2024 8:48:33 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Of course he plead not guilty. It is impossible to have a shooting in Times Square.

The whole area is clearly marked as a gun-free zone.


9 posted on 02/27/2024 8:50:46 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Organic Panic

Been saying this for years. He knew how to deal with the adherents of the religion of peace


10 posted on 02/27/2024 8:56:12 AM PST by CletusVanDamme (Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights... )
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To: BenLurkin

> She has a job to do. Can’t blame her for trying. <

Yep. As a court officer, a defense attorney is not supposed to lie. Other than that, the attorney should try to be as clever as possible.

“Let me remind the press that my client Mr. Hitler is a victim of circumstances. Had it not been for the grossly unfair Treaty of Versailles, Mr. Hitler probably would have remained a simple wallpaper hanger.”


11 posted on 02/27/2024 9:01:09 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: proxy_user

Remember this is a 15 year old, which will be used as an excuse for leniency.


12 posted on 02/27/2024 9:01:34 AM PST by ChronicMA
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To: All

He came here for a “better life”
but never said it was a “better life” for him
and hell for anybody who got in his way.


13 posted on 02/27/2024 9:04:47 AM PST by Liz (Political correctness is tyranny with manners. Charlton Heston.)
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To: Leaning Right

“And I ask the court to order that the prosecution must refrain from referring to my client as “Herr Schicklgruber.”


14 posted on 02/27/2024 9:16:24 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Liz

Can I just go into any of the elite’s Country Clubs because I want a “better life”? I doubt it.


15 posted on 02/27/2024 9:19:05 AM PST by Freee-dame
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Check out her law firm.

I would like to know who’s paying for their services, because I doubt they come cheap.


16 posted on 02/27/2024 9:21:57 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
yet ANOTHER Illegal, with Taxpayer money funneled to an assh*le Lawyer, and Taxpayers have to foot ALL the costs of the Prosecution.

Lamposts-R-Us is gonna be a BIG business in the future, I hope.

17 posted on 02/27/2024 9:24:07 AM PST by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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To: Freee-dame

Course not.


18 posted on 02/27/2024 9:27:08 AM PST by Liz (Political correctness is tyranny with manners. Charlton Heston.)
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To: BenLurkin

THERE ARE ALOT OF “JOBS” NONE OF US HERE WOULD EVER TAKE.

THIS IS ONE.


19 posted on 02/27/2024 9:32:14 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ChronicMA

WHAT IS THE AVERAGE OF A MS-13 MEMBER???


20 posted on 02/27/2024 9:33:30 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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