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Sentencing Thread Begins: With #6ix9ine Sentencing Now December 18 His Co-Defendant Ro Murda Now Being Sentenced by #SDNY Judge Engelmayer; US Wants 60 Months Citing Barclays Center shooting, Times Sq robbery, LAX Circus @SDNYLIVE innercitypress.com/sdny31tekashi6… Thread

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle After a long sidebar, Judge Engelmayer has started Ro Murda' sentencing. Says the guidelines are not mandatory, but calculated them at 77 to 96 months.
No objection.
Roland Martin and two lawyers at defense table.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle AUSA begins pitch for long sentence, citing "cooperating witnesses" at trial (that is, #6ix9ine and Kristian Cruz) that Roland Martin was a high ranking Nine Trey official, in the Prison Line Up for 9 years then once out in February 2018.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle Judge Engelmayer cuts in, asks AUSA Wasn't Roland Martin not really involved in the shooting in the Barclays Center? Cites the video shown at trial.
AUSA saying he was there in the hall, citing "Mister Hernandez."

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle AUSA cites 2016 jail calls in which Roland Martin told Kristian Cruz he could help get drug debts "settled" by raising it to the Nine Trey leadership in prison.

Judge Engelmayer reminisces about trial testimony, which he says showed the Prison Line Up.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle AUSA says a significant sentence is warranted but acknowledges Ro Murda suffered a "horrific attack" in the MDC.
Now defense counsel is up.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle Ro Murda's lawyer starts with the power outage in the MDC.
Judge Engelmayer cuts him off, tells him he has a much more substantive and unique argument for Mr. Martin for a sentence reduction.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle His lawyer says Ro Murda in May 2019 renounced being a member of the gang. And on May 30 he was stabbed multiple times. And when taken between hospitals, "it is still no clear why... there was no oxygen tank in the ambulance."

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle Judge Engelmayer jumps in, saying he's seen the video and what is "striking" is that the corrections officers did not come in to help, Ro Murda was running about trying to save his own life

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle It seems NYU Langone dumped Roland Martin to Bellevue as it does not have a contract with the BOP.
Upon return to MDC, Ro Murda was put in the SHU [Special Housing Unit] for his own protection.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle Roland Martin's lawyer is arguing that he shouldn't stay in jail because he is at risk there, having renounced gang membership...

He says that Ro Murda's sentencing submission has 16 letters of support.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle Roland Martin speaks: he apologizes to the court, his family and community. Says he renounced Nine Trey in May and got stabbed nine times. He is having nightmares. He wanted to leave Brooklyn, and later work with kids, he says, and see his daughter.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle Roland Martin has already been in jail 10 months in this case. He's saying, as #6ix9ine is, that that is enough.
Judge Engelmayer after a break "to collect my thoughts" goes on the record with his view, cites his role in attack on a rival of #6ix9ine April 3, 2018

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle As Judge Engelmayer reads out his reasoning - still no sentence - a group file into courtroom. Judge has a case later in the afternoon about... AirBnB

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle Beyond deterring others, Judge Engelmayer says that society needs to be protected from Ro Murda. He adds, "Sorry to say all that, but it's the truth." Now running through mitigating factors, leading with the multiple stabbings after he renounced the gang.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle Now Judge Engelmayer is reading from the letters of support: Roland Martin's mother, his daughter ("best Dad ever"); fiance says "Ro is a great man."

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle Judge Engelmayer: Ro's aunt writes that he took care of her girls until she could come home from work. Drum roll: he is about to actually impose sentence

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle Judge Engelmayer says he would have sentenced Roland Martin to 90 months in prison, but that the attack on him in the MDC for renouncing the gang results in a 24 month reduction. He sentences Roland Martin to 66 months in jail.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle Judge Engelmayer asks Roland Martin to stand up for formal imposition of sentence: 66 months in jail (he's already served 10, so 56 more months). Says don't associate on social media with gang members, hmm. There are not legal objections. Open counts dismissed.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @XXL @HotNewHipHop @Power106LA @revolttv @TMZLive @TIDAL @pitchfork @allhiphopcom @HotFreestyle Roland Martin's lawyer asks that he serve his sentence in Fort Dix. It will be 56 more months.
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