A Florida killer was kicked out of her own sentencing hearing when she bizarrely declared that the courtroom was a “satan synagogue” and launched multiple outbursts, forcing the judge to remove her.
Amanda Cook, 41, was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday after she was convicted of brutally bludgeoning her 64-year-old roommate to death in 2019.
Before she learned her fate, Cook entered the Naples courtroom spewing nonsense as she was escorted by several court officers.
“Saw my attorney, I need a military tribunal. This is a satan synagogue,” the orange jumpsuit-clad murderer said, according to video from WBBH.
Collier Circuit Judge Joseph Foster began to read Cook’s sentence, but was disrupted over the crazed woman’s antics and had her removed from the hearing.
“Whoa! Whoa! Just got busted! Get down, they’re coming in!” Cooked screamed as several court officials tossed her out of the room.
A jury had found Cook guilty of second-degree murder with a dangerous weapon in December.
Cook, then-35, used a 9-pound cast-iron microphone stand and attacked her roommate, Karen Leiti, inside their North Naples apartment on July 3, 2019, according to court records viewed by The Post.
After the deadly assault, Cook fled to her mother’s nearby home.
The murderer eventually returned to her apartment with her mother, who called 911 on her daughter to report the gruesome crime scene.
Collier County Deputies responded to the apartment at around 2:10 a.m., where they discovered Leiti dead on the living room floor.
Cooked claimed the roommates got into an argument before Leiti fell over a speaker and onto the floor, becoming unresponsive, the booking document states.
Collier County Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Manfred Borges ruled Leiti suffered blunt force trauma to the head, not consistent with a “simple fall.”
Cook was arrested and charged with murder – evincing depraved mind not premeditated, according to court records viewed by The Post.
Investigators recovered the suspected murder weapon that matched the wounds to Leiti’s injuries.
The victim’s DNA was recovered from the base of the stand, with Cook’s fingerprints and traces of DNA just above the base and at the top of the stand.
Leiti’s injuries were described as being consistent with those typically seen by victims of high-impact vehicle crashes, Borges testified during the trial, the Collier County Sheriff’s office announced.
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