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.
He seems to be disconnected from reality"
Not as long as that cell phone is his head is still charged.
"....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."
The judge is nuts too.
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