(Reuters) – A Moscow court docket declined on Tuesday to rule on an enchantment from a jailed former U.S. marine, who’s in search of to overturn a nine-year sentence for an assault on two Russian cops which he denies.

Trevor Reed, 30, from Texas, is serving out his time period after being convicted in 2019 of endangering the lives of two cops whereas drunk on a go to to Moscow. The USA has referred to as his trial a “theatre of the absurd”.

Moscow’s Second Cassation court docket mentioned Reed’s (NASDAQ:) enchantment towards his conviction can be despatched first to a decrease court docket so he may familiarise himself with the case supplies, the TASS information company reported, citing court docket spokeswoman Dinara Muslimova.

The case might be despatched again to the cassation court docket as soon as he has executed this, TASS cited Muslimova as saying.

“Very disenchanted that justice has once more been denied,” U.S. Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan mentioned on Tuesday.

“His enchantment was not determined at this time, the proceedings proceed, and Trevor stays in jail for against the law he did not commit.”

Reed’s mother and father mentioned in March he had gone on starvation strike to protest towards being put in solitary confinement, and he had not been receiving correct medical care regardless of fears that he had tuberculosis.

Russian information companies reported final Monday that Reed had ended the starvation strike and was being handled in his jail’s medical centre.