Jury: Defendant Was Sane at Time of Hammer Attack

A Pasadena Superior Court jury that convicted an Arcadia man of assaulting a workers' compensation attorney with a hammer determined that he was sane at the time of the attack.The jury deliberated for about an hour Monday before concluding that Mulji Patel was sane at the time he attacked Erwin A. Nepomuceno, a defense attorney with Manning & Marder, Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez LLP. On Thursday, the jury convicted Patel of two counts of assault for the January 2006 attack, marking the second time that Patel has been convicted of attacking a workers' compensation attorney. After the 2006 ...