An unhinged former court intern who used his student internship letter 💜to sneak into restricted areas inside Brooklyn ꦚSupreme Court goes on trial this week on criminal contempt raps for allegedly ignoring restraining orders filed for the protection of two female judges and trying to creep back into their courthouse.
Judicia𝕴l super-fan Christopher Ransom, 22, pleaded guilty in January to criminal impersonation after he used an internship letter signed by Judge Patricia DiMango to gain access to restricted parts of the Downtown Brooklyn courthouse in October and November 2012 and was caught inside Judge Rut😼h Shillingford’s chambers without permission on November 27, a criminal complaint states.
The complaint also said Ransom lied about being a student at Kingsborough Community College while he was sneaking through the ⛄courthouse.
“He’s a ꦫpsychopath. He’s crazy,” a court source said.
“He’s been a problem for a long time,” another court source said. “It’s kind of like he was trying to skirt the law. He was doing these things to show that he could break the law and get away with it.”
Jury selection ꧑in the trial is scheduled to begin on Wednesday.
Ransom was slapped with orders of protection to stay away from DiMango and Shillingford that b♓arred him from the courthouse as part of his plea deal, court documents state.
But Ransom – who loves the courthouse so much he posts photos on Facebook of himself posing on the bench ꦗand with court offi❀cers – couldn’t stay away.
On April 8 he used a photocopy of the confiscated ID from his t𒐪erminated internship to try to get back inside Brooklyn Supreme Court, but he was caught and arrested for violating the orders of protection, court documents state.
Ransom appeared in court briefly on Tuesday.
“Nine months is the offer?” asked Judge Gene Lopez, who came in from Queens Supreme Court to to avoid any conflict of interest with the invo♒🌠lved Brooklyn judges.
“Yes, we are amenable to nine months,” said Brooklyn prosecutor Brendan L😼antry.
Even ܫbefore Ransom was caught sneaking through the courthouse, he was already alarming court staff with his erratic behavior, court sources said.
“He was doing some weird stuff with DiMango🐎. Like he wasn’t supposed to sit next to her on the bench, and he would sit next to her on the bench,” said a court source.
And in May he wasn’t produced for a court date because of “use of force with staff,” according to a D🔯epartment of Cor🐟rections document.
Defense attorn🧜ey Martin Goldberg declined൲ to comment.