Cole Tomas Allen on Thursday told a judge he was waiving his right to challenge his detention in jail — for now — on charges of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last Saturday night.
Allen’s waiver came a day after his defense team, in a court filing, sought his release on bond pending trial, and after prosecutors in their own filing laid out arguments for why he should remain in jail.
“He’s conceding detention at this time,” Allen’s lawyer, Tezira Abe, told Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya, during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
Abe said Allen was reserving his right to challenge his detention at a future date.
Abe told Upadhyaya that she and Allen’s other lawyer had difficulty meeting with the defendant over the past several days, but spoke to him on Thursday morning before the hearing.
