[Sans-Culotte]

his attorney has continued to argue that the attack was the result of a “long-running disagreement” over yard maintenance.

I fail to see the relevance of this. Once one "neighbor" physically assaults the other, then the "disagreement" becomes "assault".

[grumpygresh]

A property dispute is of course no justification for an assault which would be better characterized as attempted murder.

I think that the only defense for this lunatic is metal illness, but the defendant’s lawyer has stupidly based the justification for the “assault” on a “long running dispute” which implies a valid reason.

Paul will own this guy.