Extra: Man Jailed Without Words for Stealing Amazon Packages then Stroke Is Released to Harlem Bed - more here, including on 2d, quite different Legal Aid lawyer
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, 12/10 – A man who had been imprisoned on Rikers Island following an arrest for stealing Amazon packages has progressively lost the ability to speak.
On Wednesday his Legal Aid lawyer described for Justice Ann D. Thompson the effects of his client’s stroke: aphasia, seizures and the danger of permanent loss of language.
The prosecutor said that nevertheless he should remain detained, that even if he can’t speak, he can still steal.
Justice Thompson told the defendant that she would take a chance and release him to the facility in Harlem his attorney had arranged for him. If you get so much as a B misdemeanor, she said, I will put you back in jail.
“Yes sir,” the defendant said. One court officer said there was a detainer, and the ending also lost its clarity.
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