The jury trial of a man charged with stabbing a BMW

Mark Matassa Jul 1, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>The jury trial of a man charged with stabbing a BMW</h1>
                <h2><p>Over the weekend The Oregonian spun a fascinating tale from a crime that is a year old. It helped the storytelling, no doubt, that the subject could be described as in the headline: “Sword-wielding bipolar man in elf costume stabs BMW, fights criminal charges in trial.” The case got plenty</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/mmatassa-mac-com/">Mark Matassa</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Feb 6, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>Over the weekend <em>The Oregonian</em> spun a fascinating tale from a crime that is a year old. It helped the storytelling, no doubt, that the subject could be described as in the headline: “Sword-wielding bipolar man in elf costume stabs BMW, fights criminal charges in trial.” The case got plenty of attention in May 2014, but writer Aimee Green, apparently assigned to cover the trial, begins the tale with the luxury-car stabbing. Bit by bit she weaves<a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/05/sword-wielding_bipolar_man_in.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org"> a tale of mental illness, epic drug use</a> and legal strategy, before, at the very end, revealing the trial’s outcome. Definitely worth a read.</p>
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Over the weekend The Oregonian spun a fascinating tale from a crime that is a year old. It helped the storytelling, no doubt, that the subject could be described as in the headline: “Sword-wielding bipolar man in elf costume stabs BMW, fights criminal charges in trial.” The case got plenty of attention in May 2014, but writer Aimee Green, apparently assigned to cover the trial, begins the tale with the luxury-car stabbing. Bit by bit she weaves a tale of mental illness, epic drug use and legal strategy, before, at the very end, revealing the trial’s outcome. Definitely worth a read.

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