The Region - News from April 22, 1987

A client who stabbed his attorney with an ice pick pleaded guilty to assault charges in the attack. John Laurence Proudfoot, 39, had been convicted on two counts of assaulting a police officer and was awaiting sentencing in court March 24 when he stabbed defense attorney Kenneth Kahn with an ice pick. Proudfoot then started toward a bailiff with the icepick still in his hand--and was shot in the leg. He pleaded guilty to two assault counts in the Kahn attack, and Municipal Court Judge Benjamin Aranda set sentencing for June 4--the same day Proudfoot is to be sentenced in the police-assault case.