A no-nonsense decide flatly refused a Manhattan prosecutor’s bid to deal with an alleged teen robber with child gloves — sending the youth to jail as a substitute of placing him again on the streets.
Hunter Robinson, 16, was arraigned Saturday on theft and grand larceny fees for a Jan. 6 incident during which he and 4 others — together with a pair of brothers accused of firing gunshots that hit an NYPD cop — allegedly stole a fellow pupil’s pockets, telephone, coat and sneakers, then whacked him within the face with a gun.
The violent group lured the sufferer right into a stairwell earlier than one in every of them pointed a gun in his face and one other brandished a gun and struck him within the face with it, based on the Manhattan District Legal professional’s workplace.
They allegedly snatched the child’s pockets, together with his ID and bank cards, alongside together with his electronics, telephone, sweatshirt, sneakers and a Canada Goose coat earlier than working off collectively, leaving the sufferer “frightened, barefoot, coatless with no approach to name for assistance on a chilly afternoon in January,” stated Assistant District Legal professional Mary DeCamp.
However when Decamp requested for Robinson to be launched with intensive monitoring and a 6 p.m. curfew, Decide Melissa Jackson was having none of it.
“I'm not granting it. I'm not going to do all of that,” Jackson flatly instructed the prosecutor, including, “I can’t perceive why you aren't asking for some type of financial bail in a case as severe as this.”
The group Robinson was allegedly with on the time of the incident included Prince and Paris Francis, who're accused of firing photographs final week which struck a veteran NYPD officer within the foot. Authorities stated Paris Francis was caught on surveillance video within the space of the capturing sporting a Canada Goose coat.
Gun crimes allegedly carried out by 16- and 17-year-olds have been some extent of rivalry for Metropolis Corridor, as Mayor Adams fights to vary a 2017 regulation that raised the age of felony accountability from 16 to 18.
Jackson spent practically 22 years within the Brooklyn District Legal professional’s workplace earlier than she was appointed to the felony court docket in 2003. The Fordham College Regulation Faculty grad is understood for refusing to grant bail to IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2011 after he was accused of raping a lodge maid, sending him to Rikers Island as a substitute.
Robinson’s lawyer appealed to the decide to contemplate the teenager’s background, together with his good grades — As and Bs — and lack of a felony document.
The teenager, whose mom was within the courtroom and able to take him residence, is school purposes and earns $13 an hour cleansing lecture rooms earlier than college, lawyer Nicole Jardim stated.
“I perceive,” Jackson stated. “He’s been hanging out with the improper folks and his mom can’t management that.
“I'm denying the appliance. I’m remanding him. He's gonna have somewhat style of what’s it’s prefer to be charged and hanging out with the improper folks.”
“You're being remanded,” she instructed Robinson, who's due again in court docket Monday.
“Would your Honor contemplate supervised launch?” Jardim begged.
“No,” Jackson replied.
Robinson’s mom declined remark after the Saturday continuing.
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