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Bisram given until April 16 to file response to U.S. Govt. – Judge orders no more extensions
In jail: Marcus Bisram
A New York judge has given fugitive businessman, Marcus Bisram, and his defence team, until April 16, to file a critical response to the U.S. Government.
Yesterday, Judge Kiyo Matsumoto, in granting a request for more time, made it clear that no additional extensions will be granted.
Bisram is in U.S. custody pending the outcome of challenge to a deportation ruling made late last year. His lawyer, Mario Gallucci, told Kaieteur News that the District Court Judge has granted an extension for a response to a filing of the US Government’s response to a Writ of Habeas Corpus.
“The extension was granted for two reasons – I have been involved in a five-week double murder in the first degree trial in New York and two, the Guyanese Counsel has still not provided the necessary affidavit required for us to file our response.”
Gallucci noted that once he responds to the Government, the Judge will review and make a decision.
“If the decision is favourable then Mr. Bisram will not be extradited. If unfavourable, then we would make a further application to the Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson.”
Tillerson has the final say if Bisram is extradited back to Guyana to face a murder charge.
Killed: Faiyaz Narinedatt
Late last year, Bisram was ordered held after a judge found that he is extraditable to Guyana. Bisram’s lawyer immediately, in November, filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus – that Bisram be produced. It would be the last procedure that the businessman had to fight his extradition.
In January, Assistant Legal Advisor of the Department of State, Washington, Tome Heinemann, filed a declaration in which it was disclosed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guyana on January 18, 2018, transmitted its request for the extradition of Bisram.
The Ministry made it clear then that the charges for Bisram’s extradition remained pending in Guyana with the warrant included in the extradition still valid.
In his Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Bisram’s petition, Richard Donoghue, US Attorney disclosed that Bisram (the “fugitive”) is wanted for murder in Guyana.
He said that the Government of Guyana has obtained a warrant for his arrest in Guyana and has sought his extradition from the US.
“Rather than appear in Guyana and face the charge against him, the fugitive has remained in the United States, challenging his extradition and now seeking to delay the extradition by filing a meritless petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging the order certifying his extraditability issued on October 12, 2017.”
Bisram was arrested at a New York beach front property, in Far Rockaway, Queens, on July 4, last, after a U.S. Judge had issued a warrant for him. Prior to that, Bisram was posted on the Interpol wanted list.
Bisram’s alleged actions in November 2016 in Berbice, caused four men to be charged for the murder of Faiyaz Narinedatt.
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