by Benson Agoha
Ignorance they say can be very costly. This statement can not be truer than this scenario where a prisoner languished behind bar for a whole five months, unaware that just $2 (£1.20) would have been needed to get him out on bail.
Aitabdel Salem, 41, spent the months at Rikers Island confinement even though so little was required to have him walking out and about.
According to the story by VLAD TV, the lawyers for the prisoner who is currently being held on $30,000 (19,700) bail for missing a court date, believe they have plenty of reason to fault the dysfunction of the criminal justice system for his blunder; citing a period of five months prison time he once served for failing to post bail that they say he was never informed would only cost him $2 (£1.20).
Attorneys Glenn Hardy and Theodore Goldbergh are reportedly defending 41-year-old Aitabdel Salem's missed arraignment on May 13, 2015 by claiming that there was no way he could have even known about the date considering the letter sent out to inform him was returned stamped "return to sender". This, they say was due to the fact that it had been sent to an old address on file.
Ignorance they say can be very costly. This statement can not be truer than this scenario where a prisoner languished behind bar for a whole five months, unaware that just $2 (£1.20) would have been needed to get him out on bail.
Aitabdel Salem, 41, spent the months at Rikers Island confinement even though so little was required to have him walking out and about.
According to the story by VLAD TV, the lawyers for the prisoner who is currently being held on $30,000 (19,700) bail for missing a court date, believe they have plenty of reason to fault the dysfunction of the criminal justice system for his blunder; citing a period of five months prison time he once served for failing to post bail that they say he was never informed would only cost him $2 (£1.20).
Attorneys Glenn Hardy and Theodore Goldbergh are reportedly defending 41-year-old Aitabdel Salem's missed arraignment on May 13, 2015 by claiming that there was no way he could have even known about the date considering the letter sent out to inform him was returned stamped "return to sender". This, they say was due to the fact that it had been sent to an old address on file.
Meanwhile, the Algerian immigrant remains behind bars because of his inability to the five digit sum.
However, the incidence brings up recollection of all of the days between November 2014 and April 2015 in which he remained in prison on charges that had been dropped, according to a Daily News exclusive.
The prisoner was reportedly shocked by the information, with his new lawyer Glenn Hardy reportedly saying “(Salem) was shocked and dismayed and frustrated that his case was unconscionably mishandled and there was no communication by his attorney telling him his bail was $2 which he could have made at any moment.”
Whose duty is it to make sure notices are properly delivered and signed for?
To read the whole article, visit: www.vladtv.com.
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