Federal prosecutors want to forcibly medicate a man charged with sending hundreds of unwanted, threatening and violent text messages and emails to two Niagara County residents – including one who is a judge – in hopes of making him competent to stand trial for cyberstalking.

An attorney has objected to the government’s request, saying the charges against Nicholas Bloom are not serious enough to justify “injecting something into him he doesn’t want.”

Bloom has a constitutional right to “protect the sanctity of his own body” by refusing the injection of medication that will change his brain chemistry, assistant federal public defender Jeffrey Bagley argued at a hearing on Tuesday.

U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder concluded the government met its burden in establishing the need f

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