Convicted-killer Kamron Taylor wss back in a Kankakee County courrtoom Monday where he appeared to be appointed a new defense attorney.  The 23-year-old appeared before Judge Kathy Bradshaw-Elliott while shackled by his hands and ankles, dressed in a a black and white striped Cook County jumpsuit.  

It was Taylor's first apperance in Kankakee since his dramatic escape from the Jerome Combs Detention Center, in which a correectional officer was severely beaten.

Taylor spent three days on the run before he was captured in Chicago.  He faces a weapons charge in Chicago.  No new charges were filed in Monday's court appearance. He was appointed a defense attorney, Larry Beaumont.

Judge Elliott denied a defense motion to remove Taylor from isolation in the Cook County Jail.  Beaumont argued the isolation violates Taylor's due process and is "detrimental to his health."

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