Back in November I learned about the alarming case about one Josh Monson via a post on Lowering the Bar that was aptly titled, “Man Who Stabbed His First Two Lawyers With a Pencil Stabs Another Lawyer With a Pencil.” The LTB headline, which made me laugh when I read it in November and made me laugh again just now, pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the situation at that time. In case you crave more details, Monson is a defendant in one trial involving drug charges and another trial charging second-degree murder, and in the course of those trials he has stabbed three different lawyers with writing utensils.
As the pencil stab count has now reached three, the judge in the murder case understandably rolled out enhanced security measures for Monson’s trial, which got under way Thursday. Happily, these measures appear to have succeeded — so far. As The Herald confirmed, “no lawyers were injured on Thursday as a murder trial got under way for an Everett man accused of stabbing three of his previous attorneys.
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