Judge Royce Lamberth, judge of the U.S. District Court, heard the request Wednesday afternoon and ordered Chansley to receive the organic diet.
Last week, according to court documents, Chansley filed the request for organic food, which he said was all he had eaten for the past eight years. He said the last time he ate was on the morning of January 25 and asked for canned vegetables, canned game-caught tuna or organic canned soup.
“I will continue to pray through the pain and do my best not to complain,” Chansley wrote in the request. ‘I have strayed from my mental diet several times over the past eight years with detrimental physical effects. As a spiritual man, I am willing to suffer for my beliefs, my beliefs and the weight of the consequences. ”
Eric Glover, chief board member of the DC Department of Corrections, disputes that Chansley did not eat in a Tuesday email to Watkins that was filed in the court documents.
During a trial Friday, a judge encouraged Chansley’s lawyer to try to work out the problems associated with his diet with Glover. According to the documents, Chansley’s request for organic food was rejected on Monday, stating that his allegations have no ‘religious merits’.
Watkins on Wednesday called for Chansley to be released before his trial and said he did not have a criminal history and was not ‘part of a grand plan to overthrow the government’, and that it would be removed. problems with Chansley’s “deteriorating health situation”. Watkins wrote Wednesday that Chansley also complied with the FBI.
The judge in the case said he may consider bail for him in early March. The request was withdrawn on Wednesday after Chansley was granted organic food, but “a renewed motion for provisional release is expected to be submitted shortly,” Watkins told POLITICO.
The Phoenix man was among the first people charged by federal prosecutors following the Capitol uprising, which left five people dead. Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, is charged with violating the Federal Riot Act and obstructing Congress, among others. Then-President Donald Trump was subsequently charged with inciting an uprising. As for Chansley, he is also prepared to testify next week during Trump’s Senate hearing, Watkins said earlier.
Prosecutors argued that Chansley was “an active participant in” the “violent uprising,” suggesting charges of rioting or uprising may be involved.
The horns and fur that Chansley wore on January 6 made him one of the most recognizable faces of the riots and were all part of his ‘Shamanic beliefs’, Watkins wrote in the documentation on Wednesday.
Watkins also argued in his documentation Wednesday that Trump incited the violence by saying during a pre-riot rally “if you do not fight like hell, you will no longer have a country.” In an interview on CNN following the riots, Watkins said Chansley “felt he was answering the president’s call” and called on Trump to forgive him.
“He felt like his voice was being heard for the first time,” Watkins said of Chansley. ‘And what finally happened, in the run-up to the election, in the run-up to the January 6 election – it was a driving force by a man on whom he hung his hat, wa na. He loved Trump. Every word he listens to him. ”