Courtroom sketches of Cole Tomas Allen.
Courtesy: Dana Verkouteren
Cole Tomas Allen on Thursday waived 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 weekend.
Allen’s waiver was a reversal of the defense team’s intention to challenge his detention, which was expressed in a court filing on Wednesday night.
“He’s conceding detention at this time,” Allen’s lawyer, Tezira Abe, told Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya, during a hearing Thursday in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office in a court filing on Wednesday had urged Upadhyaya to keep the 31-year-old California resident locked up without bond pending trial.
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