Legal Insurrection by Mary Chastain 9/7/2022
Only After Backlash the Bronx Prosecutors Want to Upgrade Charges of Man Who Sucker Punched Man Into Coma
It might be too late for the Bronx DA. Bronx prosecutors want a grand jury to upgrade charges against Van Phi Bui, 55, who sucker-punched a man into a coma.
But the prosecutors have only asked the grand jury to do this after The New York Post outed the office for downgrading the charges to misdemeanor charges that did not require bail even though the cops arrested him for attempted murder!
The Bronx District Attorney’s office charged Bui with third-degree assault and second-degree harassment.
It’s not just that the Bui almost killed Jesus Cortes, 52, but Bui is a convicted sex offender out on lifetime parole. The parole board released him in 2019 as a Level 3 sex offender, the most severe designation, after being convicted of first-0degree sex abuse of a 17-year-old girl in 1995.
Bui also told his parole officer he attacked Cortes. The parole officer could not arrest him “without ‘additional clear and convincing evidence’ he had violated the terms of his parole on the sex assault charge.”
Gov. Kathy Hochul demanded officials rearrest Bui.
That’s when the police rearrested Bui, claiming the original arrest “was a violation of his lifetime parole.”
More:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/09/only-after-backlash-the-bronx-prosecutors-want-to-upgrade-charges-of-man-who-sucker-punched-man-into-coma/
