NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A key hearing in the high-profile Joe Clyde Daniels case has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The hearing for Joseph Daniels was scheduled for this Friday. His attorney, Jake Lockert, says the hearing has been delayed because four Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents are quarantined right now because of COVID-19.
Daniels, the father of the missing boy, is charged with his death and confessed in the case.
This hearing is going to be crucial because, among other things, Lockert is going to ask for the confession to be disallowed and will argue that the TBI was not truthful in earlier testimony.
Lockert will also be asking to have the father's bond reduced, so he can get out of jail while awaiting trial, which is set for next year.
Those decisions to be made by the judge will be crucial to the case, and now because of the pandemic, the hearing is now postponed until September 24.
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