A Florida man convicted in the 1990 killing of an 11-year-old girl and her babysitter elbowed his attorney in the face hours before he was sentenced to death, wild courtroom video shows. During Monday's hearing in a Florida courtroom, Joseph Zieler, 61, asked to speak with his attorney Kevin Shirley, video from NBC affiliate WBBH of Fort Myers shows. As Shirley bent down to speak with his client, Zieler raised his elbow and hit the man in the face. Zieler was immediately tackled to the ground by bailiffs, the video shows. Shirley said he was OK, telling the judge: "I used to box, I’ve taken a lot better shots than that one." He told NBC News that he was not injured and does not know why his client attacked him. "He had to know how the bailiffs would react," Shirley said in an emailed statement Tuesday. "We had a very good working relationship. It was probably his last effort to put on a public display and I was the only civilian that he was able to l...
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