{"id":319015,"date":"2026-08-11T22:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319015\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T22:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:22:51","slug":"man-found-not-guilty-in-bronx-court-of-2-murders-has-sdny-trial-us-vague-bias-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319015\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Found Not Guilty in Bronx Court of 2 Murders Has SDNY Trial US Vague Bias Q"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man Found Not
\n Guilty in Bronx Court of 2
\n Murders Has SDNY Trial US Vague
\n Bias Q<\/p>\n

by
\n Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon<\/a> Book<\/a>
\n Substack<\/a>
<\/a><\/p>\n

SDNY<\/p>\n

COURTHOUSE,
\n Aug 11 – A man who was charged
\n in The Bronx with two 2021
\n murder and then found not
\n guilty in a less than two week
\n trial there now faces a
\n Federal trial for the same
\n murders, starting on September
\n 14.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

On April 28 U.S.
\n District Court for the
\n Southern District of New York
\n Senior Judge Colleen McMahon
\n held a conference. Inner City
\n Press was there.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\u00a0 The US
\n Attorney’s Office on April 21
\n wrote in that the Acting
\n Attorney General, Todd
\n Blanche, directed that the
\n death penalty not be sought.
\n Still, there is learned
\n counsel on the
\n case.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The AUSA, who has
\n said he is on two other
\n death-eligible cases in SDNY,
\n asked that the 3500 material
\n be attorneys-eyes-only until a
\n week before trial. He said the
\n witnesses live where the
\n defendant does – or did. He is
\n now in detention, awaiting
\n trial.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

On May 8 the US
\n Attorney’s Office wrote in
\n asking Judge McMahon to
\n reconsider her order they
\n produce 3500 material by
\n August 21, arguing politely
\n that she does not have the
\n authority, and that “the
\n Government’s witnesses did not
\n testify at the state trial,”
\n that safety is implicated.<\/p>\n

On May 22 defense
\n counsel filed a letter motion
\n seeking to suppress everything
\n found in the NYPD search of
\n 1243 Findlay Avenue, saying
\n the warrant omitted
\n “materially different
\n clothing.”<\/p>\n

On July 31 the US
\n Attorney’s Office wrote in
\n opposing the defense motions
\n in limine to preclude ID
\n testimony from NYPD Detective
\n Faton Alickaj and sever the
\n felon in possession charge.<\/p>\n

On August 3 the
\n defendant’s lawyer wrote in
\n that “the government
\n apparently objects to… a
\n fair and impartial jury and
\n opposes his request that
\n prospective jurors be shown
\n the Western District of
\n Washington’s unconscious bias
\n video.”<\/p>\n

On August 11 the
\n US Attorney’s Office docketed
\n its proposed Examination of
\n Jurors, about the killings of
\n Terrence Smith and Sergio
\n Santana and December 26 2021
\n by 168th Street and Morris
\n Avenue, then a very general
\n bias question.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The case is
\n USA v. Savage, 1:25-cr-472
\n (McMahon)<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

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