A prominent conservative defense attorney whose disappearance from court stalled a slew of U.S. Capitol riot cases said Wednesday that he has been released from the hospital and is preparing to get back to work. reports AP..
Pierce said in a legal filing Wednesday that he spent 12 days in the hospital before being released Sunday. Pierce, who did not elaborate on why he was hospitalized, said he expects to be “fully operational next week.”
“I was not ‘missing’ or anything of the sort,” Pierce wrote.
Prosecutors had raised alarm that Pierce’s cases had come to a “standstill,” and told judges they were worried Pierce’s disappearance and his associate’s actions on the lawyer’s behalf cause problems in his cases. The associate, Ryan Marshall, is not a licensed attorney and faces felony criminal charges, including fraud, in Pennsylvania state court.
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