Extra: In Washington Heights Shotgun Case Witness Is Threatened With Jail If She Does Not Return - more here

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by Matthew & Russell Lee, Patreon Substack

100 CENTRE STREET, Sept 29 – In a jury trial about a Washington Heights shooting more than five years ago, on Monday a witness bristled at being ordered to return the next day to continue on the stand.

Justice Cori H. Weston told her she must, “Do you understand?”

“I hear you,” the witness replied.

“Don’t be rude to me,” Justice Weston said before allowing her and then the jury to leave.

Then she immediately asked that the witness return to the courtroom.

After first being told that she had left, two ADAs returned with her. “You will be given a subpoena,” Justice Weston said, adding that if she does not return, she may be jailed for contempt.

With at least one of the defense’s three witnesses no longer slated to testify, closing arguments are anticipated on Friday.

Before a sidebar that triggered dismissal for the day, the witness described altercations and throwing rocks up at a window; a shotgun was fired back at them out the window and her boyfriend was hit and hospitalized.

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