Campbell County PVA Daniel Braun, charged with using electronic communication to solicit a minor, will once again go before a judge to try to get a bail reduction.
Braun will appear in court on May 21 with Campbell County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Zalla.
Zalla will hear a motion for a “Writ of habeas corpus,” a legal remedy that allows anyone detained by the government to challenge their detention. Zalla was originally supposed to hear the case on May 20, but said he needed probable cause, as determined by an affidavit (a written, sworn statement of fact used as evidence in legal proceedings), to be filed first.
Braun was originally denied a bail reduction by Campbell County District Court Judge Erin Sizemore at an April 22 bond motion, when Braun’s attorney, Brandon Voelker, requested his bail be lowered from $1,000,000 to $100,000.
Braun was arrested by the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office on April 16 because he allegedly procured or promoted the “use of a minor by electronic means,” according to court documents. He first appeared in court on Friday, April 17.
According to court documents, Braun allegedly conducted and willingly participated in “online conversation(s) with an undercover detective working in coordination with the Kentucky Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, which were illicit and sexually explicit in nature, believing the undercover detective to be a 14-year-old child.”