{"id":264261,"date":"2013-06-20T16:19:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T21:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=264261"},"modified":"2013-06-21T14:23:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T19:23:37","slug":"woman-accused-in-ricin-case-to-undergo-psych-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=264261","title":{"rendered":"Woman Accused in Ricin Case to Undergo Psych Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/Shannon-Richardson1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/Shannon-Richardson1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon Richardson\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-264262\" \/><\/a>TEXARKANA (AP) \u2014 A Texas woman accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in an attempt to frame her husband will undergo a psychological evaluation. U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven on Thursday ordered that Shannon Richardson (pictured) undergo the exam after her court-appointed attorney, Tonda Curry, requested it. Curry said in a court motion that she had observed &#8220;a pattern of behavior&#8221; that made her wonder if Richardson can assist with her defense.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Richardson has been jailed without bond since her arrest June 7 on a charge of mailing a threatening communication to the president. The government alleges Richardson was trying to pin the crime on her estranged husband. Richardson did not speak at Thursday&#8217;s hearing. She appeared in an orange jumpsuit with her hands shackled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXARKANA (AP) \u2014 A Texas woman accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in an attempt to frame her husband will undergo a psychological evaluation. U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven on Thursday ordered that Shannon Richardson (pictured) undergo the exam after her court-appointed attorney, Tonda Curry, requested &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=264261\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woman Accused in Ricin Case to Undergo Psych Exam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 09:29:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264461,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264261\/revisions\/264461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}