Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your…. OH DEAR LORD!

I was in court for a client with a run-of-the-mill domestic violence case (victims not willing to testify). However, he's not there. The clerk told me he's in custody in a neighboring county. With eyes wide open, she says "He bit off his girlfriend's ear!"

He did appear in court that day. I was unable to convince him that these new charges, which include mayhem, might change the calculus of his present case.

By a fortuitous coincidence, I went with his lawyer later in the day. So I had to ask him was the injury more like Mike Tyson or Vincent Van Gogh.