United States v. Nicholas Defonte v. Francia Collazos, Intervenor-Movant-Appellant

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Francia Collazos was, at one time, an inmate at Metropolitan Correctional Center (“MCC”), a Manhattan correctional facility where defendant Nicholas DeFonte was employed as a guard. The government plans to call Collazos as a witness in the trial of DeFonte, which commenced today, on various crimes allegedly committed in the course of his employment as a corrections officer. Collazos kept a journal during her time of incarceration, recording, inter alia, incidents involving DeFonte and conversations with both her attorney and government prosecutors. The Government became aware of the…