Legal History
Attorney Charged With Attempted Murder in Bizarre Attack on Lawmaker
Posted Nov 2, 2009, 04:05 pm CST
By Martha Neil
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 bruised.
Rep. Edward Delaney (D-Indianapolis), who is also an Indianapolis lawyer, says Mendenhall pulled a gun on him in Carmel, Ind., on Saturday after the two met for the first time for what he thought was going to be a real estate representation, reports the Indianapolis Star.
After Mendenhall unsuccessfully attempted to shoot Delaney, he beat him, according to authorities and the lawmaker's family, leaving him with… Continue reading...
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