Jermain Taylor Ordered to Undergo Mental Evaluation: Latest Details, Updates

The troubles for IBF middleweight champion Jermain Taylor continue, as he is now reportedly set to undergo a mental evaluation.      

According to The Associated Press, via Yahoo.com, the request to move Taylor from jail to a state hospital was handed down by a judge on Tuesday:

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Champion middleweight boxer Jermain Taylor, who is facing charges in two gun-related incidents, must undergo a mental evaluation, an Arkansas judge said Tuesday.

He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree battery and first-degree terroristic threatening charges stemming from an August shooting of his cousin at his home in Maumelle. And Taylor last week was charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a minor after police said he opened fire and threatened to shoot a family during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Little Rock.

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Gavin Lesnick of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported that Taylor's attorney, Hubert Alexander, filed the request for his client:

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Johnson also granted a request from prosecutors to have Taylor undergo a mental evaluation at the State Hospital, which will include a neuropsychological evaluation.

Alexander said Taylor would probably be moved to the lockdown hospital, which wasn't named in open court, on Tuesday.

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John Johnson, who is the Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Arkansas, per Lesnick's report, "told the judge the state believes Taylor is a 'danger to himself and other people.'"

Per both reports, Taylor is scheduled to make his next appearance in court on Feb. 10 and his mental evaluation results will be presented on April 27. 

Taylor, 36, is an Arkansas native and has a career record of 33-4-1, including 20 KOs. He hasn't fought since winning the IBF middleweight championship from Sam Soliman in October 2014.