Judiciary
Lawyer faces felony cost for allegedly threatening New York choose
A New York lawyer has been arrested after allegedly threatening the choose in his custody case by way of a collection of textual content messages, together with one which mentioned, “I want you die tonight in a automotive fireplace.” (Picture from Shutterstock)
A New York lawyer has been arrested after allegedly threatening the choose in his custody case by way of a collection of textual content messages, together with one which mentioned, “I want you die tonight in a automotive fireplace.”
Lawyer Nicholas Leo, 57, of Yonkers, New York, was arraigned Friday on a felony cost of aggravated harassment of a choose and ordered held with out bail till his subsequent courtroom look. The choose he allegedly focused is Performing New York Supreme Court docket Justice Susan Capeci, who presides over Westchester County’s Built-in Home Violence Court docket.
Leo had been a defendant in felony and matrimonial proceedings earlier than Capeci, who he allegedly started sending threatening communications in late Could.
The Mid-Hudson News, the Rockland/Westchester Journal News and the New York Post have protection.
In one in all Leo’s textual content messages to Capeci, he allegedly advised her, “I’m going to beat you,” in keeping with the Mid-Hudson Information, which cited the felony grievance. In one other message, Leo allegedly mentioned, “I warned you month after month after month. When you take my youngsters from me for no purpose, which you probably did, it’s not gonna go properly,” and “I hope you die.”
“At a time of accelerating threats to members of the judiciary, the defendant’s alleged conduct is very alarming,” Westchester County District Lawyer Susan Cacace mentioned in a press release revealed by the Mid-Hudson Information. “We mustn’t ever permit the sort of conduct to change into normalized. The sanctity of our authorized course of calls for nothing much less.”
Capeci acquired a brief order of safety towards Leo, the Mid-Hudson Information stories.
Leo is due again in courtroom Wednesday.
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