| Man Who
Made Bomb
Threat at SDNY
Is Sent For
Mental Test
Against His
Will, Order
Sealed
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 19 – Taylor Cascio was
arrested and detained
on November 28, 2022 for
making a false bomb threat in
the security screening area of
the Office of the U.S.
Attorney for the Southern
District of New York.
On May 19,
2023 he was deemed unruly and
possibly incompetent and was
sent against his will for
mental testing. Inner City
Press, which reported
on his November
detention, was again
present.
Cascio, a
tall man with red hair, was
brought into the SDNY
Magistrates Court in shackles
by two U.S. Marshals. He spoke
with his appointed lawyer from
DLA Piper; Inner City Press
overheard but will not report
what was said.
When SDNY Magistrate Judge
James L. Cott came in,
Assistant US Attorney Ryan
Allison told him his Office
was asking that Cascio be sent
for mental testing.
DLA
Piper's John Hillebrecht said
that while his client
objected, he as an officer of
the court had no dispute with
the prosecutors'
psychologist's report
recommending four months of
testing.
Judge Cott asked, So you are
opposing?
Cascio
spoke up, and said he had been
held incommunicado for six
months and wanted to fire his
lawyers.
Judge Cott
told him to be quiet, to speak
through counsel.
Cascio
reiterated that he wanted to
fire them. Judge Cott
began reading a decision,
citing applicable mental
competency case law, and
ordered Cascio removed and
sent for mental evaluation for
four months.
The
prosecutor asked that his
letters be sealed. Then
Hillebrecht asked that the
order sending his client for
mental testing against his
will also be sealed.
Cascio was led out by now four
US Marshals. He asked to give
a sheaf of papers "to the
SDNY," then before being taken
out tossed them on the table
in front of his lawyer.
As
counsel left, Inner City Press
noted to the Court that such
orders are public in other
cases - a Polish literary
agent, Ernest Horge.
The danger is
that people could simply
disappear, as happened for a
time with Horge.
More details on
Substack here
The case is US v.
Cascio, 22-mj-9601 (Cott)
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