Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“A San Diego federal judge has ordered prison officials to involuntarily medicate a conspiracy theorist charged with killing his two young children in Mexico in an attempt to restore his competency to stand trial. However, U.S. District Judge Cathy Bencivengo issued an immediate stay of her order to allow Matthew Taylor Coleman’s defense team to appeal the ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. … According to court records, Coleman has admitted to the killings in detailed confessions during law enforcement interviews, and his wife told investigators that the couple had delved into the sprawling QAnon conspiracy together. Coleman eventually became paranoid by a mix of conspiracy theories, even believing that his wife had passed serpent blood from ‘lizard people’ on to their children, according to the court records. In 2023, Bencivengo ruled Coleman was not competent to stand trial and ordered him to be committed for treatment.” (04/28/25)