Lawyers mad about treatment of NATO plot suspects
Defense attorneys are angry about the way three men accused of making Molotov cocktails and planning to use them to attack President Barack Obama’s campaign police headquarters in Chicago and other targets have been treated in jail.
In court on Tuesday they said that putting Brian Church, Jared Chase and Brent Batterly in solitary confinement amounts to “cruel and unusual” treatment.
A Cook County Sheriff’s office spokesman says the three were placed in the jail’s hospital for observation. The men are in their 20s. Spokesman Frank Bilecki says younger inmates and those charged in high-profile cases are put in observation cells for 48 hours to make sure they won’t hurt themselves or others.
He says the men will likely be moved to the jail’s general population unit later Tuesday.