The Legal Aid Society released a statement criticizing the judge and prosecutors on Staten Island, who they said refused to release the 60-year-old man last year while he was dying from stage four cancer.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.A 60-year-old man facing burglary charges died Thursday at the Bellevue Hospital jail ward after a battle with cancer, according to correction officials, becoming thein city custody this year and triggering criticism about the decision to hold him in jail while he was ill.
But court documents show that judges, aware of his condition, expressed regret in keeping Howell in custody because he repeatedly skipped court and was arrested for other crimes while free. On two occasions, according to court papers, prosecutors actually agreed to release Howell, but both times he failed to abide by the terms of his release.
But Howell missed follow-up court dates in the fall of 2021, resulting in a warrant for his arrest. When police brought him to court the following April, a judge once again set $5,000 bail. A plea deal two months later resulted in Howell being released on probation under the stipulation that he continue chemotherapy treatments at Elmhurst Hospital.
Four months after that order, in April, Howell’s attorney, Danielle Welch, asked a Queens Supreme Court Justice to lower bail to $1 because Howell was indisputably nearing the end of his life. That motion was denied.
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