Former two-division UFC champion B.J. Penn is due again in courtroom subsequent month for allegedly violating a restraining order and assaulting his mom, Lorraine Shin. “The Prodigy” plans to defend himself in courtroom.
Penn doesn’t have an legal professional and the choose granted the general public defender’s movement to withdraw from the case. The courtroom is contemplating granting Penn a court-appointed “standby counsel” for subsequent month’s look.
“The judicial model of “fingers of chin down” is something you say “can and will probably be used in opposition to you in a courtroom of legislation”, however even with that stated and I do know I don’t wanna make any errors, however truthfully nearly each time I’ve obtained a lawyer they both bought me out or they set me up and stole my cash. if I’m going down, I’m going down making the selections I needed to,” Penn wrote on Instagram.
“I’ve at all times reside my life that method when the bell rings I get up and everybody else sits down, and I make the selections that I needed to make not talked into one thing by anyone else or arrange by somebody in a disguise that I can’t ever discover later to ask him why the f*ck did he do this after which yell yelled at him or requested for my a refund. It’s a grimy sport. By no means let a lawyer make a enterprise determination.”
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Penn has been arrested a number of instances in latest months. Main as much as the primary arrest in Might, Penn had been making social media posts alleging that his household has been murdered and changed by imposters attempting to steal his belongings.
Penn posted a video of the arrest to social media. After being launched from police custody, Penn doubled down on his assertion that his household has been changed, calling his mom, or the imposter mom, a ‘murdering thief.’ Shin, requested and acquired a restraining order in opposition to her 46-year-old son.
On June 12, Penn allegedly violated the restraining order. A Hawaiian choose ordered Penn to vacate the house he shares together with his 79-year outdated mom and prolonged the protecting order in opposition to Penn introduced by Shin till Nov. 23. The June twelfth arrest was the fourth time Penn had been taken into custody in a two-week span.
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Shin believes her son is affected by a situation known as Capgras delusional syndrome.
“I imagine my son [B.J. Penn] is affected by Capgras delusional syndrome (a psychiatric dysfunction by which an individual holds a delusion {that a} good friend, partner, mother or father, different shut member of the family has been changed by an similar imposter). He believes I’m an imposter who has killed his household to realize management of the household belongings,” Shin wrote in a press release to police.
Penn as soon as held the UFC light-weight and welterweight titles. He was inducted within the UFC Corridor of Fame in 2015. He final fought in Might 2019, dropping to Clay Guida by unanimous determination.
