Does This Look Like the Face of a Guy Who Claims He Stabbed Someone to Death Because He Thought It Was a Werewolf?

Source – Defense attorneys say a man accused of brutally stabbing a man to death in Alexandria last July did so because he thought the victim was a werewolf.

On July 13, 2018, police were called to an Old Town window replacement business in the 1200 block of King Street after receiving reports for a suspicious death.

Once officers arrived at the scene, they found Pankaj Bhasin locked inside a Mercedes Benz with no pants on covered in blood.

Inside the business, officers found the owner, Brad Jackson, 65, suffering from 53 stab wounds, among other injuries.

On Tuesday in court, the defense pleaded to strike the murder trial from the court stating a more appropriate charge of voluntary manslaughter should be applied.

The defense claimed Bhasin suffered from mental health issues and that he thought Jackson was a werewolf at the time of the incident.

The judge, however, overruled the motion to strike down the case.

As much as we all mourn for a man killed horribly and want this monster Pankaj Bhasin locked up permanently, you can’t fault his lawyer for trying. As the great Hunter S. Thompson said, even Satan deserves good counsel. And what other defense are you going to put up when you’re presented with a client who stabbed someone to death 53 times while pantless in a Mercedes covered in blood? Self defense? An accident? Suicide?

No. In this situation, you’ve got no choice but to throw the Hail Mary. Chuck it up the length of the court and hope it goes in. The Mistaken Identity/Werewolf Defense is your only option. You don’t have to sell it to everybody. Just slip it past the judge and get it to the jury. Hope the judge doesn’t understand that knives are useless on a werewolf. Maybe get a couple of Knife Owner Rights enthusiasts on the jury who believe the best way to stop a bad mythical lycanthrope creature is a good man with a knife. I mean, if the murder weapon had been a wooden stake, you devise an entirely different strategy. But for the facts he or she was presented with, I think this attorney did the best they could. It just wasn’t good enough. It’s why public defenders always remind people they don’t choose whom they represent. But if you ever end up on trial for stabbing somebody to death for no good reason, this is the kind of defense you want.