Now we have Louisiana Woman... Last week we had the OK woman tased by the cop. Old people can be tricky and dangerous too!


A St. Tammany Parish jury deliberated just 15 minutes Wednesday before finding 78-year-old Patricia Currie guilty of attempted second degree murder in a 2016 attack on the man who was then her lawyer, a spokeswoman for 22nd Judicial District Attorney Warren Montgomery said.

Currie, who will be sentenced by Judge Alan Zaunbrecher on Sept. 30, faces 10 to 50 years in prison, spokeswoman Lisa Page said.

Keith Couture, who had represented the Mandeville woman during bankruptcy proceedings, testified that he was alone at his law office on Oct. 27, 2016, when her heard the door open. He told the jury that walked to the front of the office and saw his former client sitting in a chair with latex gloves on her hands, plastic grocery bags on her feet and a white towel across her lap.

Officials: Woman brings shotgun to Covington law office, threatens to kill her attorney
When Couture asked why she was there, Couture testified that she said she had come to kill him.

She moved the towel, revealing a weapon, which she raised, he said. But he was able to wrestle the weapon from her and call 911.

Police reports at the time said she was armed with a .410 shotgun.

St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s deputies arrested Currie on the scene and discovered that the gun was loaded and that she had four additional shotgun shells in her undergarments and box of ammunition in her car, Page said.

Currie, who took the stand during the trial that began Monday, admitted going to Couture’s office with her hands and feet covered and with a loaded shotgun, Page said. But she told the jury she only meant to scare Couture, a claim that prosecutors disputed.

“This was a cold-blooded, calculated attempted murder,” Assistant District Attorney Blair Alford said during closing arguments. “If it was not for the victim’s quick thinking to wrestle the gun away from her, he would be dead. We would not have heard from him but only be looking at his pictures.”

Alford and Assistant District Attorney Angad S. Ghai also presented evidence that Currie might have been planning to kill other lawyers. Two hours before showing up at Couture’s office, Currie was spotted in her red Camaro, parked in the woods outside the office of another attorney who had represented her for part of a 30-year legal dispute with the homeowners association in her Mandeville neighborhood, Page said.

An employee at the building where that law firm was located asked Currie to move her car to a visitor's parking space, but she refused, Page said. She angrily gripped her steering wheel when she was told the attorney she wanted to see was not there and that police would be called. The worker noticed that she was wearing blue latex gloves.

Judge declares mistrial in case of Mandeville woman accused of trying to kill her lawyer
The trial, which began Monday, follows a mistrial on the same charge in April of 2018. During that trial, Judge Peter Garcia said that Couture had made statements during that trial that were intended to prejudice the jury against Currie.

Public Defender James Carrington sought the mistrial after Couture mentioned negative incidents involving Currie and other people during Carrington's cross-examination.

Garcia said the statements were not responsive to what the defense counsel had asked, which was whether the witness had provided any information to the 22nd Judicial District Attorney's Office.

Couture responded to what the judge described as a yes-or-no question by saying others had called him after news stories about her attack, including another lawyer who told him Currie was the reason he started carrying a gun.

He also pointed to Currie when he was asked to introduce himself, saying she had tried to kill him, which Garcia said was intended to plan prejudice in the minds of jurors.

Garcia said he couldn't "un-ring that bell" and granted the motion for a mistrial.

LINK: https://www.nola.com/news/cour...fd-7393ea0917d9.html

An attempted 2nd degree murder conviction is yet another example of anthropomorphizing attorneys. Plenty of animal cruelty or hunting without a license laws they could have charged her with.

Perhaps she just finished reading Shakespeare's Henry VI. "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"

Dont kid yourselves. Age, size and gender should not be used to judge threat with someone who wants to kill or injure you.
Several of the more serious hand to hand fights I was in as a cop were with people in their late 60s or 70s. Including a wrestling match with a 200 pound, 68 year old woman who produced an Italian style stiletto switchblade when I was trying to arrest her for DUI.