Performing Supreme Courtroom Justice Stephen Antignani will take into account a bail package deal at a later date for Hunter Robinson.
Steven Hirsch
A Manhattan decide chided prosecutors on Wednesday for not initially asking that a teenager accused of participating in a violent gunpoint theft be held on financial bail.
Hunter Robinson, 16, was indicted on a theft cost for the Jan. 6 incident wherein he and 4 different teenagers allegedly jumped a 15-year-old boy, stealing his pockets, cellphone, coat and footwear earlier than pistol-whipping him.
At his listening to in regards to the indictment Wednesday, Robinson’s public defender indicated that prosecutors can be making a bail utility within the case — however Performing Supreme Courtroom Justice Stephen Antignani wasn’t having it.
“I’m not altering the bail circumstances at the moment,” the no-nonsense jurist stated.
“To start with, that is my courtroom,” Antignani interjected, when Assistant District Lawyer Edward Smith pushed again.
“I make the dedication,” he continued. “Not you. Not the DA’s workplace. I do.”
The decide questioned why the Manhattan District Lawyer’s Workplace hadn’t requested financial bail at Robinson’s arraignment on Saturday, as a substitute asking that he be launched with monitoring and a curfew.
The decide at that listening to, Melissa Jackson, had flatly refused, sending Robinson to a juvenile detention heart. The teenager’s lawyer had additionally tried to get Antignani to rethink on Monday, to no avail.
“The workplace needs to be in line with what they do,” Antignani stated Wednesday, including there was no new data within the case for him to contemplate, aside from the indictment.
He added that if the Manhattan District Lawyer’s Workplace needed the teenager freed, then prosecutors shouldn’t have gone ahead with the indictment.
“You had a straightforward answer. You selected to not use it,” he stated.
The decide emphasised the seriousness of the allegations, together with that Robinson and 4 others mugged the younger sufferer “utilizing two separate weapons.”
“His sister was the one who allegedly known as the sufferer to set all of it up,” Antignani stated of Robinson, whose mom sat within the gallery crying.
The prosecutor harassed that Robinson has no prison historical past, not like the opposite defendants within the case, who embody a pair of brothers accused of firing gunshots that hit an NYPD cop. Robinson additionally isn’t accused of truly brandishing one of many firearms used within the theft.
Antignani stated he would take into account a bail package deal at a later date. Robinson’s subsequent listening to within the case is ready for Feb. 23.
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