DEFENDANT #2: DANIELLE MARIE DAROCA-BELL #265746 (The Vernon Patterson Dossier)

 

Role in People v. Michael Taylor (XNEGA111132)

Court-appointed defense counsel during the early and most critical phase of the prosecution’s psychiatric narrative. Though outwardly appearing cooperative, Daroca-Bell operated as a key gatekeeper, obstructing access to sealed records, dismissing her client’s procedural concerns, and laying the foundation for the competency ruse later executed by Vernon Patterson.

Summary of Involvement:

Danielle Daroca-Bell entered the Taylor case not merely as counsel of record — but as the first legal actor to interface with the court’s covert psychiatric maneuvering. During her tenure, she consistently deflected requests for sealed orders, stonewalled demands for due process, and refused to challenge a PC 730 evaluation that had no valid order authorizing it.

Between Summer 2023 and early 2024, Daroca-Bell maintained strategic silence while her client, Michael Taylor, documented serious due process violations — including being ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation without lawful court authority. Her communications exhibit a clear pattern: minimization of objections, denial of procedural abuse, and normalization of irregular conduct.

Despite repeated requests, Daroca-Bell failed to produce the sealed court order that supposedly authorized the evaluation which led to Taylor’s psychiatric hold. This refusal was not neutral — it enabled an unlawful deprivation of liberty that continued for months. Rather than act as legal shield, she functioned as an informational gatekeeper, ensuring that key facts remained buried beneath institutional privilege.

Even when directly informed that a sealed order had never been served, she did nothing to challenge the record. Instead, she quietly transitioned out of the case, clearing the path for Vernon Patterson to inherit a procedural fiction already in motion.

Why She Is Defendant #2 in the Dossier:

• She was the first link in the obstruction chain — quietly affirming unlawful court actions with no written basis.
• She denied her client access to the record, sealing off the very remedy the Constitution provides.
• She laid the groundwork for the “730 fraud” by refusing to contest an evaluation done without judicial authorization.
• Her silence was not passive — it was legally significant complicity that allowed the State to manufacture a psychiatric narrative without lawful foundation.

> “Danielle Daroca-Bell was not the executioner, but the architect’s assistant — smoothing over legal violations with politeness and procedural misdirection. Her gift to the court was silence when it most needed to be called to account.”