Posted on 02/19/2006 2:38:22 PM PST by Cagey
WASHINGTON (AP) - A man who claimed to have a cellphone implanted in his head was convicted Friday of jumping a White House fence in a bid to meet former president Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea.
Shawn Cox, 29, of Mammoth Spring, Ark., was sentenced to 150 days in jail but a District of Columbia Superior Court judge suspended the sentence - with the stipulation Cox stay at least one block away from the executive mansion. He also was fined $50.
Cox was arrested Dec. 4 after he scaled the spiked wrought-iron fence on the northern side of the White House. The incident occurred after he had three separate encounters with uniformed Secret Service officers on bicycle patrol. He told them he planned to meet former president Clinton's daughter at a church near the White House.
"He was very upset that we were not taking him seriously," Officer Kimberly Wojcik testified during a non-jury trial.
Wojcik said she and other officers repeatedly told Cox Clinton no longer lived in the White House.
"If you do not have an appointment, you cannot get into the White House," said Officer James Livingston, who told the court he first saw a shoeless Cox near the White House on Dec. 2.
In rambling testimony under questioning from his court-appointed lawyer, Cox said: "They put a cell phone in my head."
He went on to tell the court: "George Bush told me to jump the fence and I jumped the fence."
He later said the Secret Service officers told him to jump.
Judge John Bayly rejected a prosecution request for a stay-away order covering the Capitol and Senate office buildings. Assistant U.S. attorney Alexander Dahl said Cox tried to contact Chelsea Clinton through U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton's staff.
Cox had a psychiatric evaluation before being deemed competent to stand trial.
I really don't want to say this:
It's Bush's fault.
Sorry.
What's the frequency Kenneth?
well of course! it would make perfect sense that it is Bush's fault. sheesh. that sorta goes without saying doesn't it? dude must be a real fat head to have a cell phone implanted in it...
I would like to get it on the record, that I do not think this was Bush's fault. ;-)
i feel faint. (lol)
This guy has to really be David Gregory.
Fifty bucks? Heck, that's incentive enough for any hazing prank.
Oh get outa here... LOL
Cox had a psychiatric evaluation before being deemed competent to stand trial.
I'm surprised they found a psychiatrist who was willing to say that someone is competent to stand trial. Psychiatrists generally say that everyone is nuts except them.
"Can you hear me now?"
Shawn Cox has jumped the fence.
This guy needs to be locked up. Just my opinion of course.
He seems to be disconnected from reality
I'm rather disturbed by this story. Here a delusional man who appears to be stalking Chelsea Clinton, who has breached WH security, and yet who was found competent to stand trial (who's the crazy person?) and is facing only a few months in jail. Why is he not being committed to a mental institution? Oh, that's right, we don't do that any more. I hope Miss Clinton is being made of any ramifications of this situation that may affect her. We don't need another John Hinckley (sp?) on our hands.
So are Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy, and John Kerry but they're still out runnin' around.
cwll phone implanted in his head....
hmmmmmmmmm that would solve the whole problem of losing your phone...unless you ran into some Muslim Missionaries....
The judge suspended the sentence so he does no jail time whatsoever. But, it did cost him a whole fifty dollars in fines.
What a country.
Well, that's true, but they were actually sent to DC by their voters.
Maybe they should be examined?
One of the Mammoth Spring Cox, eh?
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