By Lori Pilger and Nicholas Bergin
Lincoln Journal Star
LINCOLN, Neb. — Patrick Howley, wearing prison khakis and chains, sat in the witness stand and said he wanted to permanently disfigure the Lincoln Correctional Center caseworker to teach him a lesson.
“My intent was to carve up his face,” Howley said Wednesday. “I wanted him to think about what he had been doing to me every time he looked in the mirror.”
In testifying during his bench trial on charges of attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault on an officer and two counts of use of a weapon, Howley said he did not want to kill Jeff Laabs, the 51-year-old former caseworker.
He said he felt Laabs had singled him out, that the correctional officer would wake him from naps as many as three times a day and demand he make his bed.
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