United States v. Warren, 10-CR-0276(1) (PJS/JJG). (2019)
Court: District Court, D. Minnesota
Number: infdco20190716c21
Visitors: 31
Filed: Jul. 15, 2019
Latest Update: Jul. 15, 2019
Summary: ORDER PATRICK J. SCHILTZ , District Judge . This matter is before the Court on the motion of defendant Stevon Warren for appointment of counsel to assist him in seeking compassionate release under the First Step Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194. Warren does not explain why he requires counsel in order to file a motion for compassionate release. Instead, he recycles meritless arguments relating to the validity of his conviction—arguments that are based on a misrepresentation
Summary: ORDER PATRICK J. SCHILTZ , District Judge . This matter is before the Court on the motion of defendant Stevon Warren for appointment of counsel to assist him in seeking compassionate release under the First Step Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194. Warren does not explain why he requires counsel in order to file a motion for compassionate release. Instead, he recycles meritless arguments relating to the validity of his conviction—arguments that are based on a misrepresentation ..
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ORDER
PATRICK J. SCHILTZ, District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on the motion of defendant Stevon Warren for appointment of counsel to assist him in seeking compassionate release under the First Step Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194.
Warren does not explain why he requires counsel in order to file a motion for compassionate release. Instead, he recycles meritless arguments relating to the validity of his conviction—arguments that are based on a misrepresentation of the trial record and that this Court has already rejected. See ECF No. 193 at 3-4 ("The sentence quoted by Warren—`[n]o one went across state lines'—was a sentence uttered by the prosecutor about Count Two, not Count One. . . . When discussing the crime charged in Count One, the government never said that Warren had not crossed a state line; to the contrary, the government said several times that Warren had crossed a state line when he transported Duncan to Wisconsin to engage in prostitution.").
Moreover, Warren has already filed a motion for compassionate release in which he had no trouble describing the health problems that he believes justify his release. See ECF No. 225. The Court denied that motion as premature, but there is no reason why Warren needs the help of an attorney to renew it.
Accordingly, Warren's motion for appointment of counsel [ECF No. 230] is DENIED.
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