Niagra Falls business man's attorney seeks to have him freed from solitary confinement

From the Buffalo News:

County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas scheduled the hearing after defense attorney E. Earl Key insisted that placing DePetris in a regular cell would not necessarily mean lifting the judge’s order cutting off his communications privileges. 

Key said that his client lacks access to the jail’s law library and its Internet connection to the Lexis legal database. “It’s harming his defense,” Key said. 

Farkas wasn’t keen on the idea because DePetris is accused of using the phones to try to set up a contract with a hit man to kill Sandro Viola, DePetris’ brother-in-law and owner of another Niagara Falls company. 

“How am I going to put him back in the general (jail) population when the last time he was there, he allegedly committed a crime?” Farkas asked.

This is perhaps one of the rare instances when confinement seems justifiable.