The attorney for Iced Earth guitarist, Jon Schaffer, who pleaded guilty to charges relating to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, said his client had human waste thrown at him while in an Indiana jail and he also received death threats.
“My client, who is presumed innocent, has just gone through two months of hell where other people were throwing feces at him and urine at him and threatening his life in a horrible, horrible situation,” Schaffer’s attorney Marc J. Victor told a federal judge during Schaffer’s detention hearing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, according to the Indianapolis Star.
The comments made during a March court hearing were revealed Thursday, prompting Schaffer’s transfer to a Washington, D.C., jail before he was released on bail in April, The Daily Beast reports.
Schaffer turned himself in to authorities on Jan. 17 and was kept in ‘Administrative Segregation’ due to his high profile status. He was later removed from the cell block after claiming to be “in fear for his personal safety.”
Schaffer, a member of the Oath Keepers was originally charged with six crimes in relation to the Capitol riot. He only pleaded guilty to two– obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress; and trespassing on restricted grounds of the Capitol while armed with a deadly or dangerous weapon.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of up to 30 years in prison but, he is expected to face between 3.5 and 4.5 years in prison after striking a plea deal with prosecutors.
