Man Wants Mistrial, Man Gets Mistrial

The Shreveport Times reports that a trial on a charge of forcible rape against John Vincent Spano, which was set to begin on Monday, was delayed after Spano attacked his public defender.

Spano allegedly walked up to Rickey Swift, a senior attorney with the public defender's office, and decked him in front of at least 12 potential jurors, two prosecutors, two deputies, a bailiff and the judge in Courtroom H on the second floor of the Caddo Courthouse, sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Don Gibbs said.

Sounds like a scene straight out of The Practice.

Posted by AJR at July 14, 2004 08:12 AM