Criminal Justice

Attorney Charged With Attempted Murder in Bizarre Attack on Lawmaker

By Martha Neil

Nov 2, 2009, 04:05 pm CST

Watching his father fight a gut-wrenching legal battle motivated Augustus Mendenhall to go to law school. But the decades-old property dispute still festered, resulting in a bizarre incident this past weekend that left the 38-year-old attorney jailed in an attempted murder case and a 66-year-old Indiana state lawmaker battered and… full story