Threatens to kill judge, slashes his attorney. Way to go brainiac

[srobert]

This guy is brilliant. What better to be found not guilty of a violent crime than to threaten to shoot the judge, the prosecutor, then slash your own atorney with a razor blade in court. This guy must be a genius. :eek:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/10/07/courtroom.slashing.ap/index.html

I'm this close to giving this guy "Da Seal (http://homepage.mac.com/srobert/.Pictures/Other%20pics/Untitled-1.jpg)".

[Mr. Anderson]

Deputies were investigating how Williams got the razor into court.

Obviously there are quite a few 'braniacs' down there. How in the world did he get in the courtroom with a razor blade?

Well, I hope he gets some help and put away for a while....

D

[Hemingray]

Quite frankly I'm amazed people like this exist. :rolleyes:

[virividox]

Wat a whack job

[rainman::|:|]

Umm, can you guys even read? I swear sometimes. The guy was using insanity as his defense, which is immensely hard to do anymore-- judges hate agreeing with it. So, he just increased his chances of being found insane, and this outburst may have sealed the verdict. So yeah, he is a genius. He turned 0 chance into some chance.

You didn't even need to figure it out, the press did it for you.

"I've contended all along that this guy is nuts, and to be honest, this pretty much confirms it," Garraway said late Wednesday. "... what kind of rational person would attack his own lawyer?"

Williams has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity on the charges he kidnapped and tried to murder 6-year-old Ben Smith IV, who was taken from his class in March 2003. He is also accused of shooting at officers, barricading himself in a house, and using the boy as a shield during a 12-hour standoff that ended with the child's release.

paul

[srobert]

Yeah. I read the whole thing before posting it. I still think that his act won't reduce his sentence in any way. If it does, then prepare yourself to see a lot more of butchery in the court romm in the coming years. And if he does get a lighter sentence, I petition to rename the "American Justice System" to the "American Baloney System" ^_^

By the way, I always value your input mr. paulwhannel. You always bring interesting viewpoints.

[rainman::|:|]

Well for this to work in his favor the most, they would have needed to declare mistrial-- which the judge refuses to do, meaning the judge probably saw through this little performance. But this is a strategy that's been used before, with varying degrees of success... usually it's just an outburst tho, without any actual injuries.

I still say he had absolutely no chance of winning, and that this was a calculated and desperate attempt at regaining that chance. While I agree that he's still not going to win, I doubt he's any worse off for taking the risk... This was an intelligent thing to do, in a way. Perspective.

And thanks srobert, i'm not usually so bitchy-- :) One of those days.

paul

[King Cobra]

Yeah, acting insane, like trying to yell at your briefcase to have it talk back to you, or this:


Barbette Williams, 48, of New Orleans was booked with attempted second-degree murder for injuring lawyer Bert Garraway.
He's not only insane, but he physically attacked his own lawyer in court. Congratulations to Williams for winning this award:

http://andrej.gadgetgaming.com/images/comedy/records/dumbest/idiot/week/1.jpg

[srobert]

Congratulations to Williams for winning this award:
IDIOT OF THE WEEK

Sorry to disapoint you but Ballmer already won the award this week by constantly outdoing himself. See gazilions other threads about his ^_^.

[King Cobra]

I wanted to do an award that wasn't for a person who had anything to do with computers. It's way too easy to do that here.

[srobert]

I wanted to do an award that wasn't for a person who had anything to do with computers. It's way too easy to do that here.

I see your point. Then we should do as they do with noble prizes and categorize:

- Ballmer prize of idiocy in the field of technology
- Ballmer prize of idiocy in the field of arts and entertainment
- Ballmer prize of idiocy in the field of everyday life
etc...

Could work ^_^

[jared_kipe]

I really like the field thing, maybe we could use differnt stupid people's names for the respective field.

[kaylie_kipe]

Who attacks their own lawyer? It doesn't matter if you're using insanity as a plea...that's just wacko! It does make you wonder though...is he really insane or was he doing it to try to get off the hook?

[wdlove]

Who attacks their own lawyer? It doesn't matter if you're using insanity as a plea...that's just wacko! It does make you wonder though...is he really insane or was he doing it to try to get off the hook?

I imagine that it is a little bit of both. No sane person would do something like that. He certainly used his intelligence to go down the wrong road. Wonder if any heads will roll for allowing a razor into a courtroom.

[emac kinda guy]

Who attacks their own lawyer? It doesn't matter if you're using insanity as a plea...that's just wacko! It does make you wonder though...is he really insane or was he doing it to try to get off the hook?

I'd like to attack my lawyer. He just forwarded mail that was 2 months old.

Unfortunately he (my lawyer not the topic) seeems to be the best of a bad lot.

Later