The attorney for a Jan. 6 prisoner is so concerned over the condition of his client’s rapidly failing health that he filed a motion for immediate release and an emergency request for a hearing.
Jan. 6 prisoner Christopher Quaglin has been incarcerated for 19 months.
The first motion (pdf), filed Aug. 21, explained that the defendant’s emergency request for pretrial release was based primarily on the belief that “he is in imminent danger of serious bodily harm or death.” On Aug. 22, Quaglin’s attorney filed another motion, reiterating the request for his release “on the basis of, inter alia, an imminent threat of severe bodily harm to the Defendant due to deliberate indifference to his serious medical condition compounded with the conditions of confinement at the Northern Neck Regional Jail.”…