The judge’s orders alleged that the conspiracist Qanon

A federal judge of San Diego ordered the prison authorities of involuntarily drugs to a conspiracy theorist accused of having killed his two young children in Mexico in an attempt To restore his competence to be judged.

However, the American district judge Cathy Bencivengo published an immediate stay of his order to allow the defense team of Matthew Taylor Coleman to appeal the decision at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals American.

Coleman, an owner of the Santa Barbara surf school, aged 43, who would have killed her baby and young child in 2021, while paranoid and obsessed with Qanon and other conspiracy theories, was noted at the end of 2023 as being mentally incompetent to be judged. Federal prosecutors have asked for permission in the past year to attend Coleman involuntarily in order to restore his mental competence, which the United States Supreme Court deemed legal under certain conditions, although many of the specific arguments for and against the drug plan have been filed under Seal.

On Friday, Coleman’s defense team filed a notice of appeal, one day after Bencivengo’s decision. His lawyers did not respond to messages on Monday asking for comments on the decision or their call.

Coleman pleaded not guilty of the federal accusations of having murdered American nationals on foreign soil for the killings of his 2 -year -old son, Kaleo, and his 10 -month -old daughter, Roxy. The authorities allege that in August 2021, Coleman led children to Mexico and pulled them with a spear pistol. Their bodies were discovered in a ditch on a Rosarito motorway.

According to the judicial archives, Coleman admitted murders to detailed confessions during interviews with the police, and his wife told investigators that the couple had immersed themselves in Qanon’s sprawling conspiracy. Coleman finally became paranoid by a mixture of conspiracy theories, even believing that his wife had surpassed the snake blood of “lizard peoples” to their children, according to the judicial archives.

In 2023, Bencivengo judged that Coleman was not competent to undergo his trial and ordered him to be initiated for treatment. Bureau of Prisons files show that he remains in detention in a Federal Missouri medical prison.

Most of the judicial files concerning his competence remain sealed, but the prosecutors wrote in a file last year that Coleman was committed because “evidence suggested that he had mental illness or defect and cannot understand the procedure or help his defense”. A prison doctor who evaluated Coleman for 21 weeks last year “think he meets … Schizophrenia spectrum criteria not specified and other psychotic disorders and is not competent to proceed or make decisions in his case,” wrote the prosecutors. Coleman did not participate in the assessments.

Quoting the prison doctor’s report, prosecutors wrote last year that “it is a chronic disease that would probably not recover without antipsychotic drugs”.

Government lawyers also wrote that, in detention in 2022, Coleman “cut himself off with a razor, plunged the first in a toilet, struck in the face and slammed the head in the ground.” Despite these incidents, an administrative hearing officer of the prisons office judged that Coleman was not a danger for himself or for others and decided not to associate Coleman under a different law.