Utah judge orders man charged with threatening Obama to get psychiatric evaluation

September 25th, 2009 Judge to hear arguments in drilling auction caseSALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge will hear arguments Friday to decide whether a college student charged with disrupting a federal auction for oil and gas drilling leases in Utah can claim he was acting in the interest of the greater good. Tim DeChristopher says he wanted to protect wild lands near Utah's national parks from drilling and call attention to climate change.

September 10th, 2009 Va. judge orders release of white supremacistROANOKE, Va. — A U.S. magistrate judge in Virginia has ordered the release of an avowed white supremacist, but prosecutors have appealed.

September 2nd, 2009 Judge: Utah school district showed prejudiceSALT LAKE CITY — A judge for the Utah Labor Commission has ruled that school officials engaged in racial profiling and prejudice when they rejected a man from India for a substitute teaching position shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

August 24th, 2009 Utah judge orders sale of polygamous sect's landSALT LAKE CITY — A Utah judge has ordered the sale of a 400-acre parcel of land that is part of a trust established by followers of jailed polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs. In a ruling issued Monday, 3rd District Court Judge Denise Lindberg says a liquidity crisis of the United Effort Plan Trust makes the sale of Berry Knoll necessary.

August 3rd, 2009 Mom: NY LaGuardia bomb scare suspect mentally illNEW YORK — The mother of the homeless man arrested on charges of causing a bomb scare at LaGuardia Airport says her son has a psychiatric disorder. Margie Jones tells the New York Daily News in Monday's editions that her son, 32-year-old Scott McGann, suffers from catatonic schizophrenia.

July 21st, 2009 Psychiatric care ordered for Obama protesterBERLIN — A court has ordered psychiatric care for a man who staged a short-lived protest before Barack Obama's speech in Berlin during his campaign for the U.S. presidency. The 41-year-old German man drove through barricades around Berlin's Victory Column the day before Obama was to speak in July 2008 and poured red paint from his car.

July 14th, 2009 Judge releases man who threatened VaTech alumsROANOKE, Va. — A man who pleaded guilty to sending an e-mail threat to two Virginia Tech alumni on the eve of the first anniversary of the university's mass shooting has been released from jail and ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment.

June 17th, 2009 Teen accused of cat killings set to leave jailMIAMI — A judge in Miami says a teenager accused of more than a dozen cat killings is "competent" to be released from jail under electronic monitoring. Tyler Hayes Weinman had already posted bond before Wednesday's hearing, but the judge would not release him until the 18-year-old's psychiatric evaluation could be reviewed.

June 17th, 2009 Court to review evaluation of accused cat killerMIAMI — A judge in Miami is expected to review the psychiatric evaluation of a teenager accused of killing more than a dozen cats in two South Florida neighborhoods. Although Tyler Hayes Weinman has already posted bond, he can't be released from jail until the court reviews the evaluation Wednesday morning.

June 17th, 2009 Teen accused of Fla. cat killings released on bailMIAMI — A Florida teenager accused of more than a dozen cat killings has been released from jail.

June 15th, 2009 Florida teen charged in cat killings, mutilationsMIAMI — A South Florida teenager accused of gruesomely killing and mutilating nearly two dozen cats must undergo a psychiatric evaluation before he is released, a judge ruled Monday. Tyler Hayes Weinman, 18, remained quiet during the hearing, a day after he was charged with 19 counts each of animal cruelty and improperly disposing of an animal body.

June 9th, 2009 Man ordered to face charge of threatening ObamaLAS VEGAS — A federal judge in Las Vegas has ordered a man be transferred to Utah to face a charge of threatening President Barack Obama, even as the man's defense attorney and family pleaded that the suspect get mental health treatment. U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Johnston said Monday that while 36-year-old Daniel James Murray's "mental health status seems to be severely compromised," the former armored car company employee was a threat to the community and a flight risk.

June 5th, 2009 NYC man charged with threatening Obama, SotomayorNEW YORK — A Manhattan man who threatened to kill U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and said he wanted to kill President Barack Obama has been arraigned on charges of making a terroristic threat.

June 5th, 2009 Man charged with threat against Obama in UtahSALT LAKE CITY — Federal prosecutors have charged a man with making threats against President Barack Obama after he allegedly told a bank employee in Utah he was on a mission to kill the president. The Salt Lake Tribune reported on its Web site Thursday that Daniel James Murray allegedly made the remark to a teller at a bank in St.

June 5th, 2009 Man charged in Utah with threatening ObamaSALT LAKE CITY — Federal prosecutors have charged a man with making threats against President Barack Obama after he allegedly told a bank employee in Utah he was on a mission to kill the president. The Salt Lake Tribune reported on its Web site Thursday that Daniel James Murray allegedly made the remark to a teller at a bank in St.