Nick Bollea – or Nick Hogan as he’s known on Hogan Knows Best – yesterday filed a motion in court requesting that he be released from prison.
In May the 17-year-old was sentenced to eight months behind bars for the car crash that left his friend John Graziano with permanent brain injuries.
He is currently being held in solitary confinement in Florida’s Pinellas County Jail because he's too young to join the adult prison population – a situation which his attorney insists is “neither fair nor acceptable and creates a mental and physical health risk to a seventeen year old.”
The motion reads: "...the 17-year-old minor is being wrongly held in isolated lockdown in the Pinellas County Jail for up to 17 hours a day despite his status as a non-violent, first-time offender with no juvenile record."
The motion also complains that Bollea's phone conversations with his parents have been released to the media, reports My Fox Tampa Bay.
"The result has been a media blitz with a local and national media frenzy which is unprecedented and has resulted in unspeakable harm to Nicholas Bollea and his family," according to the attorney's statement.
Bollea's lawyer requests that he serve his sentence under house arrest until he turns 18 on July 27.
