Chicago Terror Suspect to Undergo Psychiatric Evaluation After Writing Letter to Judge Accusing Her of Not Liking Muslims

An emergency hearing was held in Federal Court Thursday after 21-year-old Adel Daoud, a Hillside man accused of trying to blow up a Chicago bar in 2012, wrote a letter to the judge in his case.

Based on that letter, both sides in the case came together and agreed Daoud needs an immediate psychiatrict evaluation.

Daoud smiled big and waived to his parents as he entered Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman’s courtroom. During the 15-minute hearing he fidgeted with his hair. At one point he smiled at Judge Coleman and asked her if she had received the letter her wrote. She explained to him that’s why he was in court.

In the one-page, handwritten letter, Daoud accuses the judge of not liking Muslims and suggests she read the Quran to become Muslim. He wrote “Americans are Islamaphobic and most of them are brainwashed." Because of that, he believes his jury of “12 random people” should be chosen from a “foreign country”.

Daoud has a history of bizarre behavior in court.

During an August hearing he went on a two-minute rant saying “My case is a hoax. My trial is a hoax… The jury are freemasons hired by the judge.”

The Hillside man was arrested in 2012 when he was 18 for allegedly trying to set off a car bomb outside a Chicago bar.

In May, he was accused of trying to stab a fellow inmate with a homemade shank at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. The inmate allegedly drew a cartoon mocking the Prophet Mohammed.

Attorney Thomas Durkin has argued all along that his client received no mental health treatment when he was locked up as an 18-year-old. But a court-ordered report released in a pretrial hearing in October claimed Daoud was competent to stand trial.

If the latest competency evaluation takes too long, the judge has made it clear she may need to push the January trial date back.  

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