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Three Strikes and Your Out [of Lawyers]: Judge Rules That Violent Defendant Must Represent Himself
For Joshua Monson, it appears that the court has finally run out of pencils and he has run out of lawyers. Monson has stabbed three prior lawyers with pens or pencils. Now, Snohomish County Superior Court Judge David Kurtz (left) has ruled that he has forfeited his right counsel and must represent himself...

Defendant Stabs 3 Lawyers With Pencils, Ordered to Trial Pro Se
Joshua Monson, a defendant charged with drug possession in King County, Washington stabbed his lawyer with a pencil. The Court gave him another lawyer. Same thing. And a third lawyer, whom he stabbed in the side of the head with a pen...

Fourth Lawyer Not Yet Stabbed With Pencil in Trial of Man Who Stabbed Three Lawyers With a Pencil
Bruce Carton at Legal Blog Watch noticed that the trial of accused murderer Joshua Monson is going forward despite his best efforts to derail it by poking three successive lawyers with some sort of writing implement...

ABAJ.com: Defendant loses lawyer after stabbing three of them
ABAJ.com: Defendant Loses Right to a Lawyer After Allegedly Stabbing 3 of Them with Pencils or Pens in Court by Debra Cassens Weiss: A judge in Washington state has declared that pencil-and-pen-packing defendant Joshua Monson has forfeited his right to counsel because of three attacks on his lawyers during court hearings...

FL v. Monson and Floridas homosexual adoption laws
CNN In Session: "On In Session this week, the trial of a Florida woman accused of killing her ex-girlfriend. Cynthia Monson and Patricia Thomas dated for approximately twelve years...

VERDICT: Cynthia Monson guilty, sentenced to life for killing ex-girlfriend
  On March 19th 2010 in the trial of FL versus Monson, a jury found defendant Cynthia J. Monson guilty of the charge of first-degree murder.  Cynthia Monson fatally shot her ex-girlfriend of twelve years five times but tried to fight the charges against her by pleading self-defense...

Kentucky lawyers
fraud case ends in mistrial.

Kia Motors America, Inc.
Kia Class Action Ends in $6 Million Verdict for Plaintiffs in NJ

Richard Mellon Scaife
Billionaire divorce lawsuit ends in a $725,000 a month settlement.

Financial Elder Abuse - Financial Exploitation, Elder Abuse Lawyers
Financial Elder Abuse alleging seniors are taken advantage of for their finances.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...