| Lopez Was Hit By Train and
Threatened CSX Then Judge Now Competency
Hearing June 15
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 11 – Jonathan Lopez was
hit by a CSX train in
Pennsylvania in 2014 and
suffered traumatic brain
injury. He sued, civilly. Then
he drew a gun on his
lawyer.
Soon Lopez
was issuing threats on
Facebook: I walk out that
court room empty handed you
better kill me, the true is if
I can't live I'm ready to
die... If [the Judge] and [the
Attorney] thinks he's going to
retire with my misery you
misconstrue." He was
criminally convicted.
On
September 28 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Paul A. Crotty held a
Violation of Supervised
release proceeding. Inner City
Press covered it.
Lopez'
Federal Defender showed up,
but not Lopez. Judge Crotty
recounted how Lopez has now
written, F*ck the judge. He
was asked to issue a bench
warrant.
The Federal
Defender asked for one more
chance.
But Judge Crotty
said this was a run-around. He
said to arrange for the bench
warrant.
And now, on May
11, this: "COMPETENCY ORDER as
to Jonathan Lopez. It is,
therefore, hereby ORDERED,
pursuant to 18 U.S.C. งง
4241(a), 424l(c) and 4247(d),
that a competency hearing will
commence on Tuesday, June 15,
2021 at 11:30 AM in Courtroom
14C, 500 Pearl Street, New
York, New York 10007. The
Court reserves its right to
order a psychiatric or
psychological examination of
Mr. Lopez and a report on the
same prior to the hearing,
pursuant to 18 U.S.C. งง
424l(b), 4247(b), and 4247(c),
depending on the parties'
submissions in advance of the
hearing."
The case is US v.
Lopez, 19-cr-899 (Crotty)
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