Overview
- U.S. District Judge Fernando Aenlle-Rocha rejected Eugene “Big U” Henley’s bid for a tightly controlled temporary release at a Monday hearing in California federal court.
- The judge proposed alternatives that include a private visitation with his son’s body and a remote video link to watch the service.
- Prosecutors opposed any release, citing alleged hundreds of jail-rule violations, use of other inmates’ phone accounts, coded communications, and efforts to circumvent mail and visitation controls.
- Henley had sought permission to perform Islamic janazah rites for his son, Jabari “Baby Uiie” Henley, with a plan for electronic monitoring, private security, a fixed route, and strict no-contact conditions.
- Henley remains detained at MDC Los Angeles on a 43-count RICO case alleging he led the “Big U Enterprise,” with charges that include extortion, fraud, misuse of nonprofit funds, and the 2021 murder of Rayshawn Williams.