Halverson's Husband Gets 3 to 10, Claims Frying Pan Used in Self-Defense
The husband of embattled former Nevada judge Elizabeth Halverson was sentenced yesterday for three to 10 years for beating her with a cast-iron frying pan in September at their Las Vegas home.
Under an agreement in which the government dropped an attempted murder charge, Edward Halverson, 49, took an Alford plea and was convicted in October of one count of battery with a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm, reports the Las Vegas Sun.
His only comment was to blame his wife for the attack, reports KVBC, a local NBC affiliate. “If she hadn’t pulled a knife on me,” he told the court, “I wouldn’t have clocked her.”
Meanwhile, his wife, who reportedly spent two weeks in the hospital after the attack, says she wishes District Judge David Barker had given her husband more time, given the impact the crime has had on her.
Removed from the bench, battling health problems and confined to a wheelchair even before he hit her over the head with the frying pan, “what I had left was my brain and my ability to go back and work as an attorney and produce stuff,” she tells the station. “And with this brain injury, I can’t go back and do that right now.”
Hat tip: Above the Law.
Earlier ABAJournal.com coverage:
Discipline Body Removes Judge Halverson, Citing ‘Bizarre’ Staff Treatment
