Extra: Man from Mali in 26 Fed for 5 Days Now After Freed by SDNY Judge So 2d Case - more here, including RAP sheet...
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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Feb 17 – A man from Mali who was detained by ICE on the corner of Canal Street and Church Street has a pending habeas corpus petition in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, where Inner City Press has been following it since October 2025.
It was assigned to Judge Vernon S. Broderick, who on October 27 ordered that Mamadou Bocoum Ndoye not be transferred out of the SDNY, EDNY or District of New Jersey absent further order from him.
The petitioner’s reply specifies that his parents live in France, informed he says he received from the Malian Embassy in DC.
On January 15, 2026, still detained, he wrote to Judge Broderick that “Since I am not there to help, our kids sometimes have to go with my wife to the restaurant in the evenings... While we normally sell 100 plates of food per day, we are now able to sell only 20 plates of food per day... Please make a decision in my case and let me go home to my family.”
On February 5, Judge Broderick ordered Ndoye freed: “ I GRANT the petition and ORDER the Government to release Petitioner from custody as soon as possible after the filing of this Opinion & Order,” with a report due in two days.
But on February 12, Ndoye was detained again. And it emerged at a February 17 hearing on his second petition that he has been in 26 Federal Plaza for five days. Judge Broderick set another hearing for Friday.
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