The district prosecutor is unleashed to Ice for detention of the suspicion in Boston during a trial
A district prosecutor in Boston Hardly criticized immigration and application of the customs of the United States on Wednesday, after one of his agents arrested a suspicion while on trial.
The agent Ice Brian Sullivan arrested Wilson Martell-Lebron last week while he was leaving the court. But a judge of the Boston Municipal Court issued a sentence on Monday against Sullivan, claiming to have deprived Martell-Lebron of his rights on the right trial and a fair trial taking him in custody.
“This ICE action was worrying of an extraordinarily reckless,” said the district prosecutor of the County of Suffolk Kevin Hayden. “As the judge observed, Ice’s actions deprived Mr. Martell-Lebron of his right to a fair trial. He also deprived our office of our intent to consider the defendant responsible for his alleged crime.”
Summerville rejected the accusation against Martell-Lebron that he had made false statements about his application for driving license, that is, it was not Martell-Lebron. Subsequently, Summerville presented the accusation of contempt against Sullivan, who could lead the District Prosecutor of the County of Suffolk Kevin Hayden Review the case to determine if accusations must be presented.
“He is reprovable,” said Ryan Sullivan, one of the Martell-Lebron lawyers. “Law enforcement agents have a job to see justice.
A spokesman for Ice did not respond to a call in search of comments.
Immigration officers were a growing presence in the courts during the first term of Trump, pushing the rejection of judges and other local officials. Trump He went further in his second term by repealing a policy in place since 2011 to generally avoid schools, places of worship and hospitals.
According to the current policy, immigration officials can carry out arrests “in the courts or neighbors when they have credible information that leads them to believe that targeted aliens are or will be present” and until they are not prohibited by state or local law.
During the two -day hearing, Sullivan said that the main charge assisted confirmed that it is the Massachusetts The State Police and the Ministries were aware of the ICE plans to arrest Martell-Lebron.
Hayden said he was not able to remember a case in which Ice arrested a defendant during a trial.
“He shouldn’t happen to happen and we will do everything possible to make sure he doesn’t happen anymore,” he told journalists.
Sullivan described a tense scene, in which the ICE agents launched on Martell-Lebron without identifying themselves, put him in a pickup truck and moved away. The trial on Thursday had just begun with the opening declarations and the first witnesses.
Sullivan said Martell-Lebron, who comes from Dominican Republic And living with the family in Massachusetts, is now al Plymouth The detention structure by allegedly being an immigrant without documents said.
“What we were challenging is that they arrested him in the middle of his trial and did not return him,” he said. “If he had been taken to court on Friday morning by Ice, we would not have moved to fire. We would not have asked for sanctions. We would have just finished the trial.”
