Overview
- Ryan Routh filed a motion asking Judge Aileen Cannon to recommend he be incarcerated in a jurisdiction that permits medical aid in dying, calling himself a "constant failure."
- Medical aid in dying is authorized in 11 states and Washington, D.C., and coverage notes federal funds cannot be used to pay for such procedures for prisoners.
- In the same filing, Routh urged that he be traded in a prisoner swap, suggesting exchanges involving detainees in Israel, Russia and Ukraine, Iran, China, and other conflict zones.
- Routh says he currently lacks legal representation for his sentencing scheduled in December after representing himself during the trial.
- A jury last month convicted him on five counts, including attempted assassination, after the Secret Service disrupted his 2024 golf-course attack; he tried to stab himself with a pen after the verdict before marshals intervened.