The “QAnon Shaman” who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 while shirtless and wearing a horned headdress is negotiating a possible plea deal with prosecutors, his attorney said.
Defense lawyer Albert Watkins told Reuters in an interview that officials at the Federal Bureau of Prisons diagnosed his client, Jacob Chansley, with transient schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety. Watkins added that Chansley’s mental conditions likely worsened while he was held in solitary confinement at a Virginia jail.
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