Lately filed authorized paperwork are giving the News4JAX I-TEAM new perception into the arguments legal professionals for Aiden Fucci might make in his upcoming trial. The now 16-year-old is charged within the deadly stabbing of his classmate 14-year-old Trystan Bailey on Moms’ Day 2021.
Six months in the past, legal professionals requested {the teenager} be transported from the Duval County jail to an unknown location for an unknown cause
Legal professionals requested that the knowledge surrounding their request stay confidential, and simply this week the courtroom clerk responded saying the next: We now have decided that the knowledge submitted within the submitting just isn’t topic to confidentiality. We’ll preserve the knowledge as confidential for 10 days from the date famous above.
The News4JAX I-TEAM requested Protection Legal professional Belkis Plata, who just isn’t affiliated with the case, why she thinks Fucci’s legal professionals needed him transported…as the teenager awaits trial in solitary confinement.
“So the protection is engaged on getting ready a protection for him, and clearly, they don’t wish to present their playing cards,” Plata mentioned.
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Plata factors out that Fucci’s legal professionals have been making an attempt to get the now 16-year-old faraway from solitary confinement in latest courtroom hearings. His legal professionals argue {the teenager} is being held in solitary for twenty-four hours a day, and denied entry to any type of recreation, training, non secular companies or jail applications.
Fucci’s legal professionals say he sometimes is permitted to have a video name with relations and meets along with his protection crew just a few occasions a month. Plata says Fucci’s legal professionals could also be getting ready the argument, that whereas Fucci has been in involuntary confinement, his psychological competency might have deteriorated.
″I imply, we see that occur in actual life, I’ve seen it occur with purchasers,” Plata mentioned. “And I feel research present that in significantly for kids, youthful ages, solitary confinement can completely have an effect on their psychological well being standing, to the purpose the place he can now not help in his protection. After which he has to get competency restoration earlier than the case picks again up and truly strikes in the direction of a trial.”
The Clerks of Courts workplace wrote again to Fucci’s legal professionals saying if they don’t file a movement to find out confidentiality of courtroom information inside 10 days, the knowledge will change into public on the eleventh day. The letter was dated on December 13, we’ll hold you posted if the explanation for this request is made public.
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