Greenup Man Charged with Threatening Judge Claims Insanity
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A Greenup County man plans to use an insanity defense in answering charges he threatened to kill the federal judge and attorneys involved in a child pornography case that landed his father in federal prison.
The attorney for 18-year-old Michael A. Collins filed the notice of defense Tuesday in federal court.
U.S. Marshals in Lexington arrested Collins of Greenup County on Friday.
Deputy Marshal Rick Kelley wrote in an affidavit that Collins plotted to shoot judge David Bunning and others because they handled the case of his father, who pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving child pornography.
Kelley wrote that Collins never carried out an attack, which he discussed with people at the Appalachian Challenge Academy in Harlan.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Hanley Ingram ordered Collins involuntarily committed for treatment.
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