UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - X UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : 0-CR- -against- VICTOR WRIGHT : U.S. Courthouse Brooklyn, New York Defendant : March, 00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - X :00 p.m. 0 BEFORE: HONORABLE FREDERIC BLOCK United States District Judge 0 APPEARANCES: For the Government: For the Defendant: Court Reporter: BENTON J. CAMPBELL, ESQUIRE United States Attorney Cadman Plaza East Brooklyn, New York 0 BY: CAROLYN POKORNY JEFFREY RABKIN Assistant U.S. Attorneys HARRY C. BATCHELDER, JR. 0 Wall Street st Floor New York, New York 000- Official Court Reporter Cadman Plaza East Brooklyn, New York 0
U.S.A. v. VICTOR WRIGHT 0 0 (Time noted: :0 p.m.) (Whereupon Judge Block takes the bench.) MS. POKORNY: Hello. COURT REPORTER: Good afternoon, Your Honor. MR. RABKIN: How are you? How are you, Judge? THE COURT: Fine, and you? COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: You saw Carolyn's most recent submission, right? The revised -- THE COURT: I got it. COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: Okay. That was something new. THE COURT: Is Mr. Batchelder here? COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: Yes. He is in with Mr. Wright. THE COURT: All right. (Whereupon Mr. Batchelder, the defendant, and Deputy U.S. Marshal Alvarez and Deputy U.S. Marshal Vavasis enter the courtroom.) COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: Well, Mr. Wright looks better today. He looked like he was depressed and a broken man the last time. (Whereupon the defendant turns towards Ms. Pokorny and attacks her.) (Whereupon there is screaming.)
U.S.A. v. VICTOR WRIGHT 0 0 COURT REPORTER: You cock sucker get off of her. Get off of her. Get off of her. You cock sucker get off of her. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Get off of her. COURT REPORTER: I will beat the shit out of you, you motherfucker. You cock sucker. Who the fuck do you think you are? U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Get off. COURT REPORTER: Try it on me, man. I'll kick you in the fuckin balls. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Get off her. THE DEFENDANT: I apologize. COURT REPORTER: You apologize, you piece of shit. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Get off of her. THE DEFENDANT: They are choking me. COURT REPORTER: You fuckin put your hands behind your back, you cock sucker. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Put your hands behind your back. COURT REPORTER: Behind your back. Put them back there a minute. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Just hook him up right there. U.S. MARSHAL VAVASIS: Turn him around, Turn him around. Hook him up. Hook him up. Push it in. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Turn him around.
U.S.A. v. VICTOR WRIGHT Turn around, sir. Turn around. U.S. MARSHAL VAVASIS: Turn around, you asshole. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Turn around. U.S. MARSHAL VAVASIS: Put your hands behind your back. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Put your hands behind your back. THE DEFENDANT: Okay, move them -- U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Move your hands behind your 0 back. 0 Move them now. COURT REPORTER: I got one. I got one hand. I got one. I got one. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Put your hands behind your back. COURT REPORTER: Get the other one. Cuff from the other. U.S. MARSHAL VAVASIS: You fuckin asshole. You motherfucker. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Leave him there now. COURT REPORTER: You cocksucker. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Leave him there. COURT REPORTER: Fuckin shit. Son of a bitch. I'm all right. Where is Carolyn. COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: I told her to leave.
U.S.A. v. VICTOR WRIGHT 0 0 COURT REPORTER: Is she all right? COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: I told her to leave. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: (Talking in background.) If he had handcuffs and there might be -- UNKNOWN VOICE: Thirty. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Is she all right? COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: I told her to leave. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Where is she? COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: I told her to leave. She is outside. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Did you press this in? COURT REPORTER: Press it in. U.S. MARSHAL VAVASIS: Don't move at all. Why did you do that for? COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: That is what I am saying. It wasn't doing nothing. COURT REPORTER: It is supposed to do something. It is not doing anything. COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: Right? COURT REPORTER: Right. COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: I am pressing it in and it is not going in. COURT REPORTER: Try his. COURT SECURITY OFFICER: It is. COURT REPORTER: It works?
U.S.A. v. VICTOR WRIGHT COURT SECURITY OFFICER: You have to pull it. COURT REPORTER: Pull it? COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: I was pressing it in, you know. 0 0 In the old building you used to press it in. COURT REPORTER: I don't understand why these guys cannot be brought out in handcuffs. It makes no sense at all. No sense at all. None at all. It is insane. COURT SECURITY OFFICER: Yeah, the 0th floor. COURT REPORTER: Fuck. He has keys hanging from him right over there. (Whereupon U.S. Marshal Vavasis removes a set of keys hanging from the defendant's clothes.) COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: Wow. I saw that -- COURT REPORTER: It got to be reset by them with a key. COURT SECURITY OFFICER: No, we have to reset it with a key. COURT REPORTER: Did it work? COURT SECURITY OFFICER: Yes, it did work. FEMALE COURT SECURITY OFFICER: 0- control, we need an ambulance. 0-. In 0-C we need an ambulance to be called, please. CONTROL: 0-.
U.S.A. v. VICTOR WRIGHT COURT REPORTER: Is she all right, Carolyn? FEMALE COURT SECURITY OFFICER: She wants an ambulance. 0 0 COURT REPORTER: Good. All right. You will have to put this over. COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: No shit, Sherlock. COURT REPORTER: Yeah. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: She is feeling okay but she got like some bruises. COURT REPORTER: You better get an ambulance. U.S. MARSHAL VAVASIS: We are just going to take this guy in the back -- CONTROL: 0-. COURT REPORTER: This is going to be put over anyway. U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Yeah, I know. COURT REPORTER: It can be put over because we are not doing nothing today. I have it on audio. I have it all on audio. That fuckin -- (Telephone ringing.) THE COURT: The marshals are here? COURT REPORTER: Two Marshals are here. They took him down. They took him down, Judge. Carolyn is going to have an ambulance to go to the
U.S.A. v. VICTOR WRIGHT hospital. 0 0 THE COURT: What happened to her? COURT REPORTER: She got all bruised, Your Honor. She wants to go to the hospital. I guess we are going to put this over? THE COURT: Yes, it is going to be put over. COURT REPORTER: Yes. THE COURT: But why didn't the Marshals respond? This thing did not work, Mike? I am terribly concerned about this. COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: All right. In the old building we had to press it in. (Telephone ringing.) U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: Look what I found. (Whereupon the Marshal picks up a razor blade.) COURT REPORTER: What is that, a razor? U.S. MARSHAL ALVAREZ: It is a razor blade. He was going to cut her. COURT REPORTER: Great. COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: You guys get the alarm downstairs? COURT SECURITY OFFICER: I don't know, I wasn't in the control. COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: You guys get the alarm downstairs?
COURT SECURITY OFFICER: I didn't get the alarm. COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: You guys get an alarm? COURT SECURITY OFFICER: Yes, yes. COURTROOM DEPUTY CLERK: In the old building you pressed it in. I don't know how it works here. COURT SECURITY OFFICER: You squeeze it. You squeeze it. COURT REPORTER: Let me turn this off. (Whereupon the digital recording is concluded.) 0 0
U.S.A. v. VICTOR WRIGHT 0 I, RONALD E. TOLKIN, HEREBY CERTIFY THAT: (A) THE FOREGOING PAGES REPRESENT AN ACCURATE AND COMPLETE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE ENTIRE DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDING OF THE INCIDENT ON MARCH, 00 BEFORE THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, JUDGE BLOCK PRESIDING IN THE MATTER OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. VICTOR WRIGHT, 0-CR-, AND (B) THESE PAGES CONSTITUTE THE ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT OF THE PROCEEDING. THIS TRANSCRIPT CERTIFICATION IS VOID IF THE SIGNATURE IS NOT ORIGINALLY SIGNED BY THE COURT REPORTER WHO REPORTED THIS MATTER.
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