Overview
- On Jan. 6, the defense asked the court for a status hearing on his confinement, and prosecutors said they take no position.
- He has been in the SHU since Aug. 29, 2025, confined 23 hours a day without commissary, with one phone call per month and no in-person visits.
- The filing says MDC failed to provide the required Unit Discipline Committee review within five working days, raising due process and Eighth Amendment concerns.
- Officials have offered conflicting rationales, with an MDC attorney downplaying his celebrity in October and the warden in December citing public-safety concerns tied to his high profile and potential rule violations.
- He remains jailed on federal murder-for-hire charges in a 2022 Los Angeles killing, having pleaded not guilty as prosecutors pursue jury anonymity and seek to move the trial start to May 4 from Jan. 20.