At a hearing for Capitol defendant Michael Foy (charged with attacking cops with a hockey stick) Judge Tanya Chutkan expressed concern about what she’s heard about the conditions of confinement in D.C. jail.

Judge Chutkan said she understands the government is "prosecuting a mass crime” but she’s particularly concerned about Foy’s pretrial detention because he’s the only Capitol defendant she has who doesn’t have a prior record but is being held pretrial.

In a filing late last night, Foy’s team said trial "is nowhere in sight” and Foy is being held "effectively in harsh solitary confinement” conditions that have been described as a "grave human rights abuse.” https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.227488/gov.uscourts.dcd.227488.21.0.pdf

Judge Chutkan said she doesn’t want "boilerplate” from the gov about how massive the Capitol investigation is in their argument for Foy’s detention, and said she’d “look very favorably upon setting conditions of release” at the next hearing unless gov makes progress on discovery.

“Trials are going to resume in the coming months,” says Judge Chutkan. If there’s going to be a plea offer made, the judge says, that should happen soon.

Background on Judge Chutkan, an Obama nominee and former public defender: https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/content/district-judge-tanya-s-chutkan

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