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		</div><h6><span style="color: #2e2525;">78-year-old, Patricia Currie of Mandeville, Louisianan is sentenced to 22 years in prison after she tried to murder her lawyer over a disagreement</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2e2525;">Currie of Mandeville, charging docs sad was 75 when she turned up at the office of Keith Couture in Oct 2016, wearing latex gloves and clutching a concealed shotgun</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2e2525;">The attorney testified that he walked into his office alone to find Currie sat in the lobby with a towel placed across her lap </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2e2525;">&#8216;When I approached her in my waiting room, I asked her what she was doing,&#8217; she responded, &#8220;I&#8217;m here to kill you&#8221;’ Couture said</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2e2525;">He managed to wrestle the weapon away from Currie and called the Sheriff&#8217;s Office, who found the gun was loaded &#8211; She had extra ammo as well</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2e2525;">Currie testified that she was just trying to scare Couture after he unsuccessfully tried to withdraw as her attorney in a bankruptcy case, a week earlier</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2e2525;">Currie was facing a maximum sentence of 50 years, but Judge Zaunbrecher settled on 22 years, because of defendant&#8217;s clean record, despite the violent nature of the crime, the loaded firearm, and her lack of truthfulness </span></h6>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-333807" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Patricia-Currie-2.jpg" alt="Patricia Currie 2" width="679" height="494" /><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m here to kill you&#8221;: Patricia Currie [photo], was 75 when she turned up at the office of Keith Couture in October 2016, wearing latex gloves, plastic grocery bags on her feet and a shotgun hidden beneath a towel</strong></span></h6>
<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">A 78-year-old Louisiana woman has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for trying to kill her attorney who had represented her in a bankruptcy case days before.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Patricia Currie of Mandeville was 75 when she turned up at the office of Keith Couture in October 2016, wearing latex gloves, plastic grocery bags on her feet and a shotgun hidden beneath a towel.<br />
After a disagreement had almost led to the termination of their attorney, client relationship, Currie was accused of trying to murder her lawyer.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">Attorney Keith couture had tried unsuccessfully a few weeks earlier to withdraw as the defendant&#8217;s counsel in a bankruptcy case.</span><br />
Couture testified that he walked into the office alone to find Currie sat in the lobby with a towel placed across her lap..<br />
&#8216;When I approached her in my waiting room, I asked her what she was doing,&#8217; he said, to which she allegedly responded, &#8220;I&#8217;m here to kill you&#8221;’.<br />
&#8216;She lifted up the gun, and the barrel came out from under the towel.&#8217;<br />
Couture managed to wrestle the weapon away from Currie and called the Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<br />
&#8216;I grabbed the end of the rifle and pushed it away, and wrestled the gun away from her.&#8217;<br />
Deputies found the gun was loaded and that she had four additional shells in her undergarments, as well as a box of ammunition in her car.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-333809" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Keith-Couture-1.jpg" alt="Keith Couture 1" width="671" height="507" /><strong>Couture [left], said he walked into his office alone to find Currie sitting in the lobby with a towel placed across her lap. &#8216;When I approached her in my waiting room, I asked her what she was doing,&#8217; and she replied &#8220;I&#8217;m here to kill you&#8221;, before uncovering the </strong></span><span style="font-size: 10.72px;">shotgun</span></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Couture (pictured) walked into the office alone to find Currie sat in the lobby with a towel placed across her lap.<br />
Couture said he approached the unwelcome client in his waiting room, and inquired what she was doing there and she responded, &#8220;I&#8217;m here to kill you&#8221;.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">At trial Currie testified that she was just trying to scare Couture.<br />
He had tried unsuccessfully a few weeks earlier to withdraw as her attorney in a bankruptcy case. Attorney and client </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">had &#8216;disagreed fundamentally on the direction and the procedure to take,&#8217; according to court documents.<br />
However a judge rejected Couture&#8217;s request to withdraw from the case.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">In a powerful victim impact statement on Friday, Couture said he could only think of his wife and children as he fought for his life, with his wife also saying the crime continues to haunt the family still, even three-years-on.</p>
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<strong>Though Currie now 78, testified that she was just trying to scare Couture, deputies found the gun was loaded and that she had four additional shells in her undergarments, as well as a box of ammunition in her car.</strong></span></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">After her conviction, the prosecution was seeking the maximum sentence of 50 years for the defendant, while the defense argued hat it should be reduced to the allowed minimum of 10 years.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Judge Zaunbrecher settled on a 22-year sentence, citing the violent nature of the crime. However the evidence of a loaded firearm and the defendant&#8217;s lack of truthfulness, candor or remorse were mitigated by the fact that she had no prior convictions.<br />
Letters written by Currie were also revealed in court, in which she wrote she understands why people ‘like blowing up buildings and opening fire on anybody &; everybody,’ adding, ‘That&#8217;s the way I feel.’<br />
If she serves the whole term, she&#8217;ll be 100 at its end.</p>
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Louisiana woman, 78, sentenced to 22 years in prison after she tried to kill her lawyer – Patricia Currie turned up at Keith Couture’s office in October 2016 with a shortgun, intent on murder
