Judiciary
Lawyer faces felony cost for allegedly threatening New York decide
A New York lawyer has been arrested after allegedly threatening the decide in his custody case by way of a sequence of textual content messages, together with one which stated, “I want you die tonight in a automotive fireplace.” (Picture from Shutterstock)
A New York lawyer has been arrested after allegedly threatening the decide in his custody case by way of a sequence of textual content messages, together with one which stated, “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 decide and ordered held with out bail till his subsequent courtroom look. The decide he allegedly focused is Appearing New York Supreme Courtroom Justice Susan Capeci, who presides over Westchester County’s Built-in Home Violence Courtroom.
Leo had been a defendant in legal and matrimonial proceedings earlier than Capeci, who he allegedly started sending threatening communications in late Might.
The Mid-Hudson Information, the Rockland/Westchester Journal Information and the New York Publish have protection.
In certainly one of Leo’s textual content messages to Capeci, he allegedly informed her, “I’m going to beat you,” in accordance with the Mid-Hudson Information, which cited the felony grievance. In one other message, Leo allegedly stated, “I warned you month after month after month. In the event you take my youngsters from me for no cause, 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 Legal professional Susan Cacace stated in an announcement printed by the Mid-Hudson Information. “We must not ever enable any such conduct to develop into normalized. The sanctity of our authorized course of calls for nothing much less.”
Capeci acquired a short lived order of safety towards Leo, the Mid-Hudson Information experiences.
Leo is due again in courtroom Wednesday.
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