After Sol Wachtler, Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals, was arrested for extortion and threatening to kidnap the fourteen-year-old daughter of his ex-lover, Professor John Money, a prominent sexologist and medical psychologist at Johns Hopkins University, railed against Wachtler's treatment as a criminal. According to Professor Money, Wachtler suffered from "Cherambault-Kandinsky syndrome" at the time of his crimes, an "erotomaniac type delusional disorder" causing its victims to suffer helplessly under "the spell" of lovesickness. Money criticized the FBI's handling of Judge Wachtler, calling their "law-and-order treatment of people with CKS ... the equivalent of making it a crime to have epileptic spells."

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