re: #447 MandyManners

Almost five years to the day after Brian G. Nichols’ murderous rampage at the Fulton County Courthouse, the Georgia Court of Appeals has revived civil suits filed by two surviving staff members of slain Superior Court Judge Rowland W. Barnes.

Nichols, who was on trial for rape, attacked and overpowered a female deputy escorting him to court, stole her gun…

SNIP

This was much deplored in the conservative commentariat. That deputy was an over-fifty, five foot tall grandmother, who was overpowered by Nichols when she took him alone into a locked room to remove his cuffs before taking him to the courtroom.