Cain Velasquez’s lead defense attorney, Mark Geragos, filed a 246-page petition Wednesday to the California Courts of Appeal asking for the release of the former UFC champion, who has been denied bail three times by the Santa Clara County Superior Court.
According to the document obtained by MMA Junkie, Geragos filed in the 6th District Court of Appeal in San Jose. The defense is asking for “immediate release on a reasonable bail or remand the matter to the superior court for an expedited hearing” and for the court to “grant such other appropriate relief.”
Velasquez, 40, has been held without bail since his Feb. 28 arrest on an attempt murder charge, among other gun-related counts, after he allegedly chased down a truck carrying Harry Goularte, a man accused of molesting Velasquez’s 4-year-old son, his mother and his stepfather, and shot at it, striking Paul Bender in the arm.
