Heather Mack’s attorneys asked a federal judge to release her from jail while she awaits a summer trial on charges she conspired to kill her mother in what was dubbed the “Bali suitcase murder.”
The motion filed Monday with Judge Matthew Kennelly says Mack has been jailed in “extremely difficult COVID conditions.” The attorneys wrote she poses no flight risk, has no passport and no desire to travel. Mack volunteered to return to the U.S. to face the new charges upon finishing a “lengthy” seven-year sentence in Bali, her attorneys wrote.
