Judge to rule on Roger Khan laptop request by Jan 29
Stabroek News
January 23, 2007
US Judge Dora Lizette Irizarry will rule on or before January 29 whether or not drug-indicted Guyanese businessman Roger Khan will be allowed a laptop computer while in custody.
Khan's lawyer, Robert Simels made an application on January last Wednesday seeking the court's permission for him to have the computer while he remains imprisoned at the Nassau County Correctional Facility in New York.
The application read that Khan would like access to the computer in the law library of Nassau jail to assist in preparation of his criminal matter, and to review materials in the pending matter, including any compact disc.
According to the application, if permission is granted the computer shall be maintained under the care and custody of the correctional facility during the time that Khan is incarcerated.
Khan is also asking that if granted no other inmate, employees or agents of the Nassau jail should review the contents of the computer or any compact discs, as the contents are privileged and confidential.
Last week Khan has appeared at a bail hearing and was denied pre-trial liberty. The judge said then that he must be held without bail and continued to deem the case a complex one.