| Man Who Pled
Guilty for Bronx Shooting Said Was
Psychotic Got 5 Years Now Says No Help
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 8 – Jahlil Ford is alleged
to have fired a gun at a car
on 178th Street and Daly
Avenue in The Bronx on January
24, 2022. He is charged with
being a felon in possession of
a gun and has been detained
since January 26,
2022.
On March
14, 2023 U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Magistrate Judge
Katharine H. Parker arraigned
Ford, when after a number of
orders to continue in the
interest of justice, he was
indicted. Inner City Press
went and covered
it.
Ford, still
in detention after one year,
had a number of questions for
his CJA lawyer. She pled him
not guilty.
The case was
assigned to District Judge,
Lorna G. Schofield. Ford pled
guilty and on February 20,
2024, his counsel asked for a
sentencing of 33 months when
sentencing is set to occur, on
March 11.
On March 7, the
defense wrote in again,
offering to bring corrections
records to sentencing and
stating that "Jahlil was in
fact psychotic at the time of
the charged conduct."
On May 14, he was
sentenced to five years in
prison, with a medical
facility to prevent psychotic
episodes recommended.
But docketed on
October 8 was his handwritten
letter that in USP Canaan
there is only one
psychologist, no one-on-one,
no help with schizophrenia- "I
hear voices in my head, when I
request to see psychology they
take weeks."
The case is US v.
Ford, 23-cr-107 (Schofield)
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