Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers ask judge to release him from custody pending trial
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Source: Politico
06/11/2025 08:17 PM EDT
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man illegally deported to his native country in March and returned to the U.S. last week to face human trafficking charges, say the Trump administration is compounding his mistreatment by trying to keep him in jail while awaiting trial.
“Mr. Abrego Garcia asks the Court for what he has been denied the past several months — due process,” his lawyers, four appointed public defenders, argued in a 20-page filing to a federal magistrate judge in Nashville, Tennessee, where Abrego Garcia was secretly indicted last month ahead of his return.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Holmes has set a hearing for Friday on whether Abrego Garcia should be detained as he awaits trial. However, even if she opts against detention in the criminal case, Abrego Garcia will likely be put in immigration custody and his prospects for release there are uncertain.
Holmes has given both sides a deadline of noon local time Thursday to indicate whether they plan to call witnesses at the hearing. However, defense attorneys argue in the new filing that the crimes Abrego Garcia was charged with don’t permit pretrial detention in most circumstances.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/11/kilmar-abrego-garcia-criminal-trial-00401951
Link to FILING (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104621/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104621.29.0.pdf
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Thank you! 
and thank you for reminding me to get a link up to the filing (a lot of articles won't include them so I have to usually dig for them but Politico actually had a link to it).
and not still at CECOT like most of the others means he has a crack team behind him (along with a pile of members of Congress in support and others with amicus briefs).
(remember that 45 co-opted a pile of crack lawyers to do "pro bono" work for him so not all pro bono lawyers are wanaabes 
)
Link to tweet
“With no legal process whatsoever, the United States government illegally
detained and deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia and shipped him to the Center for
Terrorism Confinement (CECOT) in El Salvador, one of the most violent, inhumane prisons in the world. The government now asks this Court to detain him further. As the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has held, the government's treatment of Mr.
Abrego Garcia should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.
Mr. Abrego Garcia asks the Court for what he has been denied the past several months—due process.”
