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Role in People v. Michael Taylor (XNEGA111132)
As prosecuting attorney during key competency proceedings, Sharon Ransom relied upon a disputed psychiatric assessment by Dr. Pietro D’Ingillo to petition the court for defendant Michael Bernard Taylor Jr.’s forced commitment to Metropolitan State Hospital and administration of involuntary psychotropic medication. She has since ascended to the bench as a Superior Court Judge in Van Nuys (Dept. H).
Summary of Involvement
While serving as Deputy District Attorney, Sharon Ransom played a central prosecutorial role in engineering the psychiatric narrative that would be used to deprive Michael Taylor of his liberty, autonomy, and bodily integrity. She actively presented and adopted Dr. Pietro D’Ingillo’s competency evaluation as judicial gospel—despite the fact that the evaluation itself was initiated under the shadow of a sealed, unproduced order never served upon the defense.
Ransom petitioned the court not just for a 1370 commitment, but also for authorization to administer involuntary psychiatric medication, asserting that Mr. Taylor lacked capacity and posed a risk to himself and others—a position built on procedurally defective foundations.
At no point did Ransom acknowledge or challenge the fact that the evaluation she leaned upon lacked judicial transparency. Her office refused to disclose the origin or legal basis of the sealed order, reinforcing a framework of procedural darkness. She stood as the prosecutorial sword behind the State's push for incarceration-by-diagnosis, not conviction.
Since then, Sharon Ransom has been elected to the bench herself, now presiding as a Superior Court Judge in Van Nuys Court, Department H, raising larger concerns about how such prosecutorial tactics are rewarded within the very system they help to compromise.
Why She Is Defendant #6 in the Dossier:- Knowingly relied on a fraudulent or undisclosed court order to commit a defendant to psychiatric incarceration.
- Pushed for forced medication of a pretrial defendant without clear statutory authority.
- Participated in the collusion between court, psychiatry, and prosecution that the Dossier seeks to expose.
- Her promotion to the bench signifies institutional reward for prosecutorial conduct that disregards constitutional protections.
> “In the courtroom of Judge Kaye, Sharon Ransom was the spearpoint of a psychiatric prosecution masquerading as legal process. Today, she wears robes—but the record bears witness to her role in the pretrial silencing of a defendant by chemical decree.”
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