Defendant Attacks Judge: In Lodi, California, murder defendant David Paradiso wanted to testify, but he wasn't happy about being cross-examined, Keith Reid reports for The Record. "With Paradiso on the witness stand, Deputy District Attorney Kevin Mayo asked Paradiso why he stabbed [his 20-year-old girlfriend, Eileen] Pelt.'Because she deserved to die,' Paradiso answered." This prompted a disruption by Paradiso's mother, and Judge Cinda Fox called a recess. "As the jurors filed out, David Paradiso suddenly jumped behind the judge's bench, threw Fox onto the table and began punching and stabbing her with a sharp object....Lodi police Detective Eric Bradley, the investigating officer for the prosecution, approached David Paradiso and Fox and fired." Paradiso died at the scene. Judge Fox suffered a stab wound to her arm.