Client Threatens Public Defender with Razor After Legal Resolution

It is he was with his client first thing in the morning in one of the offices on the ground floor of the Law School. “I spoke to him on the phone several times and I noticed him a bit nervous, so I preferred to meet in one of the Bar Association’s offices instead of doing it in my own. He was a matter that had been assigned to me and that belonged to another lawyer, so it hit me on the rebound. It was in the judicial resolution phase ”, he recounted.

Lawyer informed him of the opinion of the order and in that moment he began to search in a kind of fanny pack. “I thought that he was trying to locate some paper that could contribute to the case, but what was my surprise that suddenly he took out a knife and began to move it from one side to another in a threatening tone. In tenths of a second I thought a thousand things to get out of the situation. From yelling, although it was difficult for someone to hear me, because I had closed the office door to have more privacy with the client, to calm down and try by all means to make him stop trying.”

The man he kept making threats. “He did not understand that it was a sentence and that it was the judge who issued it, nor his lawyer, nor the contrary, even though he tried to explain it to him. AND He yelled at me: ‘You don’t take any more money from me, nor the other the motorcycle‘. While he insisted on saying that “I am very crazy, very crazy, because I had an appointment with the psychiatrist and I missed‘. At that moment I remembered that he had told me that he had to take the bus to return home and I tried to convince him that if he left soon he could go to Águilas at Casa del Mar and make that missed appointment and also go to the City Hall and see how to solve his situation to be able to face the payment that was required of him”.

Little by little the man seemed to calm down, “although he continued with sudden movements with the knife from one side to the other. I managed to calm him down a bit and he left. Until a long time later the scare did not pass. Comrades began to arrive, because the concentration was scheduled at the gates of the Bar Association, and I decided to manifest myself perhaps with more reason than ever. One of the signs said ‘Dignity’ and I thought it was the one that should be raised as high as possible that day”, explained JMC

And so he did. In the concentration of lawyers at the doors of the Bar Association in the Plaza del Caño showed the sign with the word ‘Dignity‘. Shortly after filed a complaint at the National Police Station. The man was required to appear at the police station, but he did not. The Bar Association, affirmed to this wording its dean, Angel Garcia Aragonhas scheduled to appear as a private prosecution. “We cannot allow this type of situation to be repeated.”

JMC recognized that he was scared. “Yes, I was scared. How not to spend it with a person in front of you with a razor who claims that she wants to kill you. I’ve been in socks. Now, something better, but still with concern. I remember, above all, my insistence that he put the gun away, that I was his lawyer and that I was going to try to help him. Nine or ten times I told him to put the gun away, which was not the solution. I hope they help you solve your problems and that no other lawyer has to experience a situation like this.”

García Aragón pointed out that security cameras of the Bar Association, recorded the entry and exit of this individualbut not the moment in which he was meeting with his legal counsel, since there are no cameras in the offices for the privacy between the defender and the defendant.