Grieving Colorado uncle body-slams lawyer of nephew’s suspected killer outside courtroom, fracturing his spine https://t.co/lTkDLgGfLz pic.twitter.com/tEfr349Igw

— New York Post (@nypost) December 12, 2025

Colorado lawyer H Michael Steinberg suffered multiple spinal fractures and a shattered pelvis after Daniel Ashby, the uncle of an unnamed 12 year-old victim with the same surname, assaulted him in a courtroom hallway following a hearing on Tuesday after Ashby confronted him and demanded to see Steinberg’s client, 19 year-old Christopher Ramirez-Rodriguez, whose vehicle ran a red light and fatally struck the younger Ashby back in July. There’s no indication in the article of whether Ramirez-Rodriguez is not a citizen, nor was he impaired by drugs or booze when the crash occurred.

So now a lawyer’s crippled, Ashby’s going away for a while, maybe even longer than Ramirez-Rodriguez, the nephew’s still dead, and the Post does not seem all that horrified by the brutality inflicted on a guy, who was just doing his job as every single accused is entitled to representation.

Steinberg’s not Emil Bove or Alan Dershowitz or Ed Martin, all of them effectively criminals themselves who would be far more deserving of courthouse manhandlings. If Ashby REALLY wanted to get to Ramirez-Rodriguez he could have vandalized a police car in the vicinity of wherever the defendant is being held and gotten himself locked up there… if Ramirez-Rodriguez is even being held. If he made bail then things would be even simpler than that. Fucking dumbass.