Criminal Justice
Defendant Slits His Throat in Courtroom After Being Sentenced to 40 Years
Moments after being sentenced to 40 years in prison for aggravated assault for cutting his niece with a butcher knife, a Texas man slit his own throat this morning in a courtroom at the Dallas County Courthouse.
Marcial Anguiano survived and left the courtroom on a stretcher, talking, reports the Dallas Morning News.
“As soon as the judge sentenced him, I saw him do something with his right arm,” his attorney, Juan Sanchez, tells the newspaper. “I turned and he cut himself with something he had brought into the courtroom.”
