Posted on 12/13/2025 8:01:30 AM PST by Morgana
A grieving uncle reportedly took the law into his own hands after growing furious over the handling of a case involving the accused killer of his nephew.
CBS News Colorado obtained police documents on Wednesday, which showed that a 36-year-old Aurora man named Daniel Alexander Ashby attended a court hearing inside the Arapahoe County Courthouse in Littleton, Colorado, earlier this week for 19-year-old Christopher Ramirez-Rodriguez.
The teen is accused of running a red light and killing Ashby’s 12-year-old nephew in July. Police say the Ashby’s nephew was crossing the road on his electric scooter at the time of the incident.
Ramirez-Rodriguez was charged with careless driving resulting in death.
During the hearing, Ashby became enraged at one point and approached H. Michael Steinberg, the 69-year-old defense lawyer defending Ramirez-Rodriguez. Police say Ashby was trying to see the defendant.
The lawyer pushed Ashby back to get him out of his way before the uncle retaliated.
Ashby proceeded to allegedly body slam Steinberg with an MMA-style takedown, leaving him unconscious with a fractured spine.
According to CBS News Colorado, there is no video of the attack.
Steinberg was transported to the hospital following the incident. Surgery was scheduled for Thursday.
Steinberg sent an email to CBS Colorado on Tuesday and said that he had suffered a shattered pelvis in addition to his spinal injury and was in “serious pain.”
Authorities arrested Ashby and charged him with second-degree assault. He is being held on $75,000 bond.
Michael Ashby, Daniel’s brother, spoke to CBS News Colorado following the incident and expressed his displeasure with the judicial system.
While Michael did personally witness the incident, he and the entire Ashby family had been attending court hearings for the driver who allegedly hit and killed his son.
“The whole family is frustrated with this legal system,” said Michael Ashby.
Ashby also revealed that there has been considerable conflict between his family and Ramirez-Rodriguez’s family, perhaps foreshadowing this unfortunate incident.
The judge had previously warned both families against “taking justice into their own hands.”
It’s only a matter of time folks...
It wasn’t “grieving”, it was an assault to do great bodily harm, and just because he did it outside the courtroom doesn’t mean that he wasn’t looking for an audience.
“The lawyer pushed Ashby back to get him out of his way...”
Maybe that was not a good idea. In a courthouse filled with cops, maybe the lawyer should have called for help instead of initiating physical contact.
And note that despite his devastating injuries, Steinberg is well enough to email with the media.
MMA style move = the attorney legcross anvil
Our “justice” system has become so perverted and screwed up that it surprises me that incidents like this are not more common.
Trying to feel bad.
Nope.
Can’t do it.
L
Sadly.
Mitigating factor, imho.
“Maybe that was not a good idea. In a courthouse filled with cops, maybe the lawyer should have called for help instead of initiating physical contact.”
I was thinking the same thing.
I guess you are OK with the death threats and assaults in Trump’s lawyers, right?
I mean Leticia James and Jack Smith should have the final and only say what happens to Trump, right?
And George Zimmerman’s lawyer deserved to be attacked, too, right?
And Kyle Rittenhouse deserved life in prison for defending himself against an ANTIFA rioter, right? He didn’t need a lawyer.
And the cop who has been in prison because Michael Brown (“hands up don’t shoot”) died deserves to rot in prison? No appeal for him!
And all those grandmas who walked around the Capital deserve to be in prison for a decade?
This guy was a 69 year old court appointed lawyer doing his job. He did not deserve to have his back broken.
He violently pushed the grieving family member.
Vigilante justice is coming, and everyone better get used to it. However, there was no justice gained here by attacking a defense lawyer. Uncle needs to go to jail.
Yawn. Good luck with that spinal injury! Didn’t know his kind had one
Anarcho-tyranny is when the justice system doesn’t really function and everything is predicated on the idea that the People are supposed to live in fear of their Government.
What happens when the winds shift and the Government has to start being afraid of the People? I’d call that true Justice.
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