After 13 months in custody at Chicago’s Metropolitan Correction Center, Heather Mack is asking to be released on bond pending trial.
Heather Mack of Chicago, center, is escorted by immigration officers to the immigration detention center in Jimbaran, Bali, Indonesia, on Oct. 29, 2021. Indonesian authorities on Nov. 2, 2021, announced that Mack, an American woman convicted of helping to kill her mother on Indonesia's tourist island of Bali in 2014, has left the island to be deported to the United States after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly is scheduled to take up the issue at a hearing Thursday at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago, where relatives of Mack’s slain mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, may offer testimony on behalf of prosecutors, who want her to remain in jail.pleaded not guilty Under federal legal standards, it would seem Mack stands little chance of winning release. The murder conspiracy counts carry up to life in prison if convicted, and in order for her to be granted bond, her lawyers would have to convince the judge she does not pose a risk of flight or a danger to others.
Prosecutors, however, argued in a motion this week that Mack has a history of violent and erratic behavior brought on by mental health issues. They also detailed the brutality of von Wiese-Mack’s slaying, including how Schaefer allegedly struck the victim with a heavy fruit bowl in their hotel room while Mack covered her mother’s mouth with her hand.
in prison but was released early for good behavior. Schaefer, who admitted to fatally beating von Wiese-Mack, was sentenced to 18 years and remains behind bars.Heather Mack, 19, holds her baby as she and Tommy Schaefer arrived at court to attend their sentence demand trial on March 31, 2015 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. Indonesian prosecutors asked a court to sentence Heather Mack to 15 years and Tommy Schaefer to 18 years in jail.
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