Police: Courthouse turns bloody when attorney assaults colleague with Lysol can

Cox Media via WPXI ^ | July 18, 2019 | Crystal Bonvillian

[rightwingintelligentsia]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Kentucky police officials have charged a Louisville attorney with assault after he allegedly attacked a colleague with a Lysol can during a fight in the courthouse.

Lindsey Scott, 63, is charged with second-degree assault in the incident, according to WDRB in Louisville. He was booked into and released from the metro jail.

Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office officials said another defense attorney, James “J.R.” Moore, was working on some of his cases around 8 a.m. Wednesday in an attorney workroom next to a district courtroom. At some point, Scott entered the room.

“Some sort of altercation developed,” Lt. Col. Carl Yates, a spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office, told the news station.

Scott is accused of hitting Moore with the aerosol can, causing cuts to his head. When deputies got to the room, Moore was restraining Scott and both were covered with blood, Yates said.

The workroom had to be shut down and cleaned of the blood. Surveillance footage released to local news stations by the Sheriff's Office shows the bloody scene, as well as a handcuffed Scott sitting on a bench with blood covering his white suit.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Wow--a little nugget from the background of the aggressor:

Wednesday’s incident is not the first time Scott has been behind bars. According to the Courier-Journal, the attorney was at the center of a sensational court case in the 1980s when, as a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, he was convicted of raping and attempting to kill a fellow Marine’s wife at the Quantico military base in Virginia.

Scott, a Louisville native, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, but the verdict was later overturned on the grounds he received ineffective counsel from his civilian lawyer, the Courier-Journal reported.

The Washington Post in 1988 covered his second military trial, at the end of which he was exonerated by the military jury of charges of attempted murder, rape, sodomy and abduction.

Scott, who had spent four years in Fort Leavenworth, wept silently, the Post reported.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I hope he gets canned.

[Boogieman]

“with blood covering his white suit...”

Is there some kind of law in Kentucky that says lawyers have to wear white suits?

Fun fact: another Kentuckian famous for his white suits, Colonel Sanders, was also a lawyer, and he got into a courtroom brawl too, but with his own client.

[Dr. Sivana]

The last problem started when his folks names him “Lindsay”. That only works out if you can get the part to work play “The Bionic Woman”.

[Responsibility2nd]

Fun fact: another Kentuckian famous for his white suits, Colonel Sanders, was also a lawyer, and he got into a courtroom brawl too, but with his own client.

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I did not know that. He sure was a failure most of his life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders

[glasseye]

Darn Amish again...

[DUMBGRUNT]

He sure was a failure most of his life.

WOW!

He got knocked down many times but got up and tried again and again.

Amazing.

[IronJack]

At least it was disinfected.

[Buckeye McFrog]

“with blood covering his white suit...”

WORST.....MATLOCK......EPISODE.....EVER!

[sloanrb]

So was Abraham Lincoln