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Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Ind. Courts - More on "He was trying to put her over that railing"
Updating the report in a June 23rd ILB entry, Joe Gerrety of the Lafayette Journal & Courier reports today, in a story that begins:
A rural Lafayette man accused of attacking a lawyer at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse after a civil court case last month has been charged with attempted murder, attempted aggravated battery and confinement.Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the charges in Tippecanoe Superior Court 1 against Russell A. Timmons, 48. The June 22 attack occurred outside Tippecanoe Superior Court 2.
The most serious charge, attempted murder, is a Class A felony punishable by 20 to 50 years in prison.
According to witness accounts and a security surveillance video of the attack, police suspect Timmons was trying to push Fort Wayne attorney Linda Polley over the fourth-floor railing of the courthouse rotunda, which is open to the second floor.
Polley fell to the floor away from the railing, and witnesses said it appeared Timmons tried to pick her up and pull her back to the railing. All the while, another attorney in the case, Theodore Hammond of Indianapolis, was attempting to pull Timmons -- 5-foot-11 and 270 pounds -- off Polley.
Seconds later, Timmons was confronted by courthouse security bailiff Shawn Sherry. Sherry came out of the Superior Court 2 courtroom, where a criminal trial was under way, and pointed pepper spray at Timmons. He complied with her orders and was taken into custody.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 4, 2007 08:10 AM
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