Judge: Boxing champ Jermain Taylor to get mental evaluation
Middleweight champ Jermain Taylor is headed from jail to a state hospital, by order of an Arkansas judge.
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An Arkansas judge on Tuesday ordered a mental evaluation for middleweight champion Jermain Taylor, and he will be moved from jail to a state hospital for the examination, reports the Associated Press.
Taylor pleaded not guilty to first-degree battery and first-degree terroristic threatening charges in the August shooting of his cousin at his home in Maumelle, Ark. Last week, Taylor was charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a minor after police said he opened fire and threatened to shoot a family during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Little Rock, the report said.
Taylor's attorney, Hubert Alexander, requested the mental evaluation.
''Everybody is saying this isn't the Jermain Taylor they know,'' Alexander said, per the report. ''We're trying to figure out who in the heck it is.''
Taylor's evaluation will be presented to the court April 27. He won the International Boxing Federation middleweight title last October, and had been scheduled to defend the title Feb. 6 in Biloxi, Miss., the Associated Press reported.
Taylor's promoter was expected to issue a statement soon.
