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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Man who raped woman a week after nonprofit bailed him out gets 18 years
2019-01-17
[NYPOST] A violent thug who’d been bailed out by a nonprofit ‐ only to viciously choke and sexually violate a young woman in the Bronx a week after he was sprung ‐ will stay behind bars for the next 18 years under a plea deal he took Wednesday.

Lynneke Burris, 30, of Brooklyn, already had a lengthy rap sheet, including for violent muggings, and had been tossed in the calaboose
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
 on a new assault charge when The Bronx Freedom Fund posted his $1,000 bail on April 5.

On April 12, he followed a 23-year-old high school English teacher into the elevator of her Concourse Village apartment building, choking her there until she passed out.

Then he dragged her into a stairwell. When she regained consciousness, he ordered her to remove her clothing and sexually attacked her.

On Wednesday, Burris repeatedly said "Yes" to Bronx Supreme Court Justice Ralph Fabrizio as he was asked if he’d squeezed the woman’s neck until she passed out, and then committed one count of criminal sex act in the first degree.

Posted by:Fred

#8  Probably lucky he didn't step on a random piece of rebar and cause it to impale itself in him while being chased....
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2019-01-17 22:29  

#7  a long rap sheet a new felony charge and only a $1000 bail

I'd call for the retirement of the judge that set that low a figure
Posted by: lord garth   2019-01-17 11:55  

#6  Should be a rule the Bailed person has to live with the bail payer or the trustees.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-01-17 09:26  

#5  Raising The Bar TV Drama - never heard of it. Here's why
Posted by: Frank G   2019-01-17 08:44  

#4   David Feige
David Feige is an American lawyer, legal commentator, and author. He is the author of the memoir, Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey into the Inferno of American Justice,[1] and co-creator of the TNT legal drama Raising the Bar,[2] both of which center on the life of the public defender. He is also the co-founder and board chair of The Bronx Freedom Fund, the first charitable bail organization in New York State.[3] In 2016 he won the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award[4] for "Untouchable" a documentary feature he wrote, produced and directed.[5] The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.[6]
Posted by: 3dc   2019-01-17 08:02  

#3   Robin Steinberg
In 2015, The Bronx Freedom Fund began a substantial expansion, raising additional funds, hiring new bail associates and significantly increasing its capacity, including expanding operations into other boroughs. Currently, the Freedom Fund is on track to bail out over 1,000 people per year. Also in 2015, the organization was awarded the National Criminal Justice Association's Outstanding Criminal Justice Program Award for the Northeast Region.[9]

In November of 2017, the Bronx Freedom Fund expanded again, re-launching as The Bail Project with the aim of establishing 40 bail funds across the nation to free over 150,000 people. [10]

Robin Steinberg is an American lawyer, social justice advocate[1] and leader in the field of holistic public defense.[2]

Steinberg is the CEO of The Bail Project,[3] a national organization modeled after The Bronx Freedom Fund,[4] which she co-founded with her husband David Feige in 2007.[5] Steinberg is the founder and former executive director of The Bronx Defenders, a community-based public defense office serving low-income New Yorkers in the Bronx since 1997,[6] and the director of Still She Rises, Tulsa,[7] "the first public defender office in the nation dedicated exclusively to the representation of mothers in the criminal justice system".[8] At The Bronx Defenders, Steinberg created The Center for Holistic Defense,[9] a national program funded by the U.S. Department of Justice that trains public defender offices across the country to replicate The Bronx Defenders’ model of holistic defense.[10]

Steinberg has spoken at TED,[11] and taught at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School,[12] Seton Hall and UCLA.[13]
Posted by: 3dc   2019-01-17 07:58  

#2   The Bronx Freedom Fund
Posted by: 3dc   2019-01-17 07:56  

#1  What happens to "non-profit"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-01-17 00:23  

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