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The homeless female accused of slamming a cellist successful nan caput successful nan New York City subway had her lawsuit delayed to September connected Wednesday.
Amira Hunter, 23, came from jailhouse coming and smiled nonstop passim her tribunal proceeding successful Manhattan. She showed up wearing an orangish jumpsuit and a brace of mitten-like restraints connected her already cuffed hands.
The anticipation was that she was going to alteration her charismatic plea from 'not guilty' to 'guilty' successful narration to charges she faces for allegedly battering Iain Forrest, 29, astatine nan 34th Street Herald Square Station respective months ago.
The Manhattan District Attorney's agency was offering her a little condemnation successful speech for a blameworthy plea, but that didn't happen.
Molly Kamus, Hunter's nationalist defense attorney, alternatively introduced a marque new, astir 1000-page archive that nan prosecution said it hasn't yet reviewed.
To springiness prosecutors nan clip they request to pore complete this document, Hunter's lawsuit was pushed backmost 2 months, her adjacent proceeding scheduled for September 18.
Amira Hunter is pictured striding into tribunal Wednesday each smiles. Her grinning persisted passim nan 25-minute hearing
Hunter's defense lawyer requested she beryllium released pinch an ankle show to spell unrecorded pinch her mother. Judge Gregory Carro denied this petition and sent her backmost to jail
The contents of nan archive were not revealed.
The defense besides requested that Hunter, who is presently successful jailhouse pending her adjacent tribunal date, beryllium screened for an ankle show truthful she could beryllium released into nan custody of her mother.
Hunter's mother reportedly wanted to be Wednesday's proceedings but couldn't beryllium location owed to work.
Judge Gregory Carro denied this inquire from nan defense and remanded Hunter backmost to jail.
Hunter's behaviour during nan 25-minute proceeding was bizarre but not atypical for her.
Similar to her tribunal quality successful April, Hunter was seen beaming astatine nan reporters successful nan room.
After nan judge asked her really aged she was, she took nan opportunity to happily state that her day was coming up successful six months and that she was a Sagittarius.
DailyMail.com reached retired to Hunter's defense attorney.
After nan judge asked her really aged she was, Hunter took nan opportunity to happily state that her day was coming up successful six months and that she was a Sagittarius
Hunter faces an battle complaint and a criminal limb possession charge. Right now, she has technically pleaded not guilty, but nan anticipation is that she will reverse and plead blameworthy if everything goes according to scheme successful her upcoming September hearing
Hunter is pictured successful April astatine her arraignment, wherever she mistakenly blurted retired that she was blameworthy erstwhile asked for her plea
Hunter's astir caller brushwood pinch nan rule began connected February 13, erstwhile she allegedly whacked Iain Forrest complete nan caput pinch a h2o bottle while he played his electrical cello astatine the at nan 34th Street Herald Square Station.
The brazen onslaught was caught connected video, and it showed a bundled-up female believed to beryllium Hunter stepping complete to Forrest.
She's seen picking up a metallic h2o vessel he'd group connected nan crushed earlier and smashed him pinch it arsenic he was playing Titanium by Sia.
The vessel clattered to nan crushed arsenic he clutched his caput successful symptom and it near nan musician fearing for his life.
Hunter was arrested connected February 28 and appeared successful tribunal nan pursuing day wherever Manhattan adjunct territory lawyer Alexandra Roberston asked nan judge to group bail astatine $50,000 owed to nan truth nan suspect was charged pinch a convulsive felony.
‘The cellist was playing earlier nan suspect came from down and struck him successful nan backmost of nan caput unprovoked,’ Roberston told nan court.
Hunter's defense lawyer astatine nan time, Joseph Conza, recommended supervised release, conscionable like Kamus did today.
And alternatively of denying it for illustration Judge Carro did today, Judge Marva Brown ordered for her to beryllium released nether supervision and sent to a shelter.
Iain Forrest, 29, said he's done performing connected subway platforms aft he was attacked doubly successful 1 year
The aesculapian student and performer was attacked connected nan evening of February 13 astatine nan 34th Street Herald Square Station. Forrest said nan fishy fled nan position and escaped into a adjacent Macy's, evading NYPD officers
Forrest was playing electrical cello successful a Manhattan subway position erstwhile he was bludgeoned complete nan caput pinch a metallic h2o bottle
Judge Brown cited a deficiency of important criminal history successful her refusal of prosecutors' demands for a $50,000 enslaved for nan felony offense.
Prior to nan onslaught connected Forrest, Hunter had 7 erstwhile arrests and progressive chair warrants for not showing up to court.
Mere days aft her release, Hunter was arrested connected suspicion of stealing a $235 Moncler shot chapeau from a Nordstrom shop successful Midtown.
Forrest, a personnel of nan MTA's Music Under New York program, has stopped performing successful nan subway since he was brutalized.
'[I]t does benignant of break my bosom that this is thing that has to extremity indefinitely, barring immoderate benignant of systemic alteration pinch protection for performances successful nan subway,' he said successful an Instagram post.
And it wasn't moreover nan first clip he was attacked successful nan subway.
A man hit and choked him and collapsed his electrical cello's artillery earlier making disconnected pinch some his rate and nan instrumentality past May.
'That has been happening excessively much, and it's almost been normalized arsenic an acceptable “risk” to fundamentally this occupation,' Forrest said. 'I deliberation that's thing that should beryllium brought attraction to and should beryllium tracked amended successful position of nan numbers and wherever these things are happening.'
'I've sewage a wife. I've sewage a family and friends that attraction astir maine and I don't cognize what they would do if I was gone.'
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