Lenient NYC judge releases teen gangbanger despite admitting he’s a flight riskBy Joe Marino and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
April 27, 2023
A notoriously lenient Manhattan judge cut loose a teen gangbanger on an attempted murder case — despite admitting he could go on the lam, The Post has learned.
Kalifa Quattara, 18, had already caught a break on a botched Brooklyn gun case where he was wrongly treated as a minor, even before he got yet another break from soft-on-crime Manhattan Judge Valentina Morales last week.
Now Quattara, with two open felonies in two boroughs, is back on the streets with electronic monitoring, according to court records.
“The ankle bracelet isn’t foolproof… [Morales] is overestimating what the bracelet does and doesn’t do,” one law enforcement source said Thursday.
“On a second gun arrest, it doesn’t appear restrictive enough.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/04/27/nyc-judge-releases-teen-gangbanger-after-admitting-hes-a-flight-risk/
