Nick Hogan

Nick Hogan (legal name: Nick Bollea), the 17-year-old son of Hulk Hogan (legal name: Terry Bollea), is trying to get out of jail.  His lawyer is saying that the youth is being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment.  We find this hard to believe, frankly.  Prison probably does feel unusal to a spoiled teen who is accustomed to doing whatever he wants.

Hogan’s attorneys requested Monday that Nick be moved out of solitary confinement, where the teen-age son of Hulk Hogan is serving a sentence for felony reckless driving.

Bollea, 17, spends 16 to 17 hours a day in a maximum security cell in a Florida jail where his food is delivered through a slot in the door, his attorneys said in a court filing seeking a transfer to monitored home confinement or the minimum-security area.

“Understandably, this situation creates an unbearable anxiety for a minor in solitary confinement,” the papers say.

Oh please! Nick’s recklessness left his passenger, John Graziano permanently brain damaged. Nick has the much better end of the terrible situation. He caused the accident and therefore, will spend some time in jail to think about his actions. John is in a permanent vegetative state.

The confinement at Pinellas County Jail, according to his lawyers, “substantially amounts to cruel and unusual punishment for a juvenile and is not warranted for a non-violent first offender serving a probation sentence.”

Bollea was sentenced last month to eight months in a Florida county jail after pleading no contest to charges stemming from the Aug. 26, 2007, car crash that left his best friend, John Graziano, in critical condition.

He was placed in solitary because the jail was not equipped to house a minor in the minimum-security area, which only holds adults, the court papers say.