May 30, 2020 Colinford Mattis of Pryor Cashman and registered attorney Urooj Rahman were arrested and charged with damaging New York City Police Department vehicles with Molotov cocktails during protests in Brooklyn.
A Brooklyn federal judge has set a tentative March 2022 trial date in the case of two lawyers accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail during a spring 2020 protest, as plea negotiations between prosecutors and the defense teams have stalled.
Attorneys for Colinford Mattis, who has been suspended from his job as an associate at Pryor Cashman pending the resolution of the criminal proceeding, and Urooj Rahman, a tenants’ attorney in Bronx Housing Court, both said during a status conference Friday that they had been unable to reach an agreement after prosecutors first extended plea offers in February.
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