Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-4-2002

Abstract

hese interlocutory appeals arise out of the pretrial detention of defendant-appellant/defendant-appellee Peter Gotti at the Metropolitan Detention Center ("MDC") in Brooklyn, New York, shortly after he was arrested for allegedly engaging in various racketeering-related activities. In No. 02-1472, Gotti appeals from an order entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Block, J.) denying his motion to revoke a detention order entered by the Magistrate Judge that he be detained without bail pending trial, arguing that the offenses he was alleged to have committed in the grand jury's indictment were not "crimes of violence" as that term is defined in the Bail Reform Act of 1984, 18 U.S.C. § 3156(a)(4) ("BRA"). In No. 02-1521, the Government appeals from an order entered by Judge Block (1) declaring unconstitutional the mandatory administrative exhaustion requirement contained in the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1997e ("PLRA"), as applied to Gotti; and (2) granting Gotti's motion to be released from administrative confinement and returned to the general prison population, Judge Block having found that Gotti's administrative confinement was unconstitutional "punishment" of a pretrial detainee.

For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the District Court's order in No. 02-1472, and dismiss as moot the appeal in No. 02-1521.

Comments

312 F.3d 535 (2002)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,

v.

Anthony CICCONE, also known as "Sonny"; Richard V. Gotti; Primo Cassarino; Jerome Brancato, also known as "Jerry"; Richard G. Gotti; Peter Piacenti, also known as "Pete 17"; Richard Bondi; Frank Scollo, also known as "Red," also known as "The little guy"; Vincent Nasso, also known as "Dr. Nasso"; Julius R. Nasso, also known as "Jules"; Anthony Pansini; Salvatore Cannata; Anna Eylenkrig; Thomas Lisi; Carmine Malara; Jerome Orsino, Jr., Defendants, Peter Gotti, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Of America, Appellant, v. Peter Gotti, Defendant-Appellee.

Docket Nos. 02-1472, 02-1521.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Argued: October 4, 2002.

Decided: December 4, 2002.

New York Law School location: File #3110, Box #145

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