Per Salt Lake Trib:
A defendant was reportedly shot by a U.S. Marshal when the defendant tried to stab a witness with a pen, according to Portia Louder, who was in the courthouse and was told those details by a marshal.
Hopefully it was a fatal shooting.
I was present one time in a new magistrate’s chambers as he decided to have a bail hearing there rather than in a court room. The defendant reached across the desk and tried to pull a pen out of his hand (to write a note to himself not to stab the magistrate). The marshall was a bit slow on the take so I had to tackle him, a mid level OC thug. From that point on, the magistrate had all hearings in the courtroom wherein he was secured behind the bench and with a lot of space between him and the defendants! Just because these defendants are in custody does not make them any less dangerous, especially today where no one seems to have any bit of decorum. I am glad this marshall was quick on the take.
This ain’t the Salt Lake I remember. It used to be the most boring place on earth, when I was a kid.
So the perp brought a pen to a gun fight, huh?
THEN he would have been able to accomplish something.
< /sarc>