Filed: Jan. 26, 2015
Latest Update: Jan. 26, 2015
Summary: ORDER SUSAN WEBBER WRIGHT, District Judge. Before the Court are Defendant James Earl Gamble, Jr.'s motions seeking release from custody (ECF No. 173) and "permission, place, time and transportation to meet with the co-defendants and counsel" (ECF No. 174). After careful consideration, and for reasons that follow, the motions are denied. The superseding indictment charges Defendant with possession with intent to distribute and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Following
Summary: ORDER SUSAN WEBBER WRIGHT, District Judge. Before the Court are Defendant James Earl Gamble, Jr.'s motions seeking release from custody (ECF No. 173) and "permission, place, time and transportation to meet with the co-defendants and counsel" (ECF No. 174). After careful consideration, and for reasons that follow, the motions are denied. The superseding indictment charges Defendant with possession with intent to distribute and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Following ..
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ORDER
SUSAN WEBBER WRIGHT, District Judge.
Before the Court are Defendant James Earl Gamble, Jr.'s motions seeking release from custody (ECF No. 173) and "permission, place, time and transportation to meet with the co-defendants and counsel" (ECF No. 174). After careful consideration, and for reasons that follow, the motions are denied.
The superseding indictment charges Defendant with possession with intent to distribute and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Following a revocation hearing held on May 9, 2014, United States Magistrate Jerome T. Kearney revoked Defendant's pretrial release. Judge Kearney found that Defendant had repeatedly violated his conditions of release and that Defendant's ankle monitor had been removed via intentional tampering.
Defendant requested a de novo review of Judge Kearney's detention order. After a thorough review of the record, the Court found that Defendant had repeatedly violated his conditions of release and that he intentionally removed his electronic monitoring device. The Court further found that conditions of release less than pretrial detention will not reasonably assure Defendant's appearance. See 18 U.S.C. § 3142(c)(1)(B)(requiring a court to employ the "least restrictive . . . condition, or combination of conditions . . . [that will] reasonably assure the appearance" of a defendant).
Defendant now requests that the Court release him pending trial so that he can better assist his attorney in developing a defense. The reasons for Defendant's pretrial detention remain, and the order of detention will continue. Defendant has also filed a motion requesting that the Court facilitate a meeting between the defendants and attorneys in this case, and he requests that the Court direct the United States Marshal to transport him to a location where the proposed conference can take place. The motion is denied.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Defendant James Earl Gamble, Jr.'s motion for release from custody (ECF No. 173) and for a conference with co-defendants and counsel (ECF No. 174) are DENIED.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
