{"id":4698,"date":"2024-12-16T14:20:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T19:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2024-12-16T14:20:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T19:20:43","slug":"anne-modica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/court-stories\/written-memories\/anne-modica\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Modica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working as a law clerk to Hon. Frank P. Geraci, Jr. when he sentenced Emanual Lutchman, a man who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He was accused of an ISIS-inspired plot to kill Rochester bar patrons with a machete on New Year\u2019s Eve in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>During the sentencing proceeding, Lutchman denounced the terrorist groups and appeared remorseful. Once Judge Geraci handed down a 20-year sentence, Lutchman\u2019s tone quickly changed, and he became increasingly agitated.<\/p>\n<p>Lutchman began shouting in Arabic and threatening future terroristic harm. As the U.S. Marshals dragged him from the courtroom, he yelled, \u201cF*** you!\u201d to Judge Geraci. Judge Geraci, with complete calmness and without missing a beat, responded \u201cMotion denied.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working as a law clerk to Hon. Frank  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-written-memories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4699,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions\/4699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}