Jan 25, 2020 19:00:00

A man who proposes to fight custody with a `` due with a Japanese sword '' appears

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In a custody battle after divorce, a man who was frustrated with his wife and his lawyer's approach called for a court to resolve the dispute by using a sword. In fact, in the state of Iowa, where the trial was held, duels are not explicitly forbidden, and men's claims may pass.

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Kansas man wants Japanese swordfight to settle custody battle with ex
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/14/kansas-man-japanese-swordfight-settle-custody-battle-ex/4464045002/

David Istrom, a 40-year-old man from Kansas, USA, has called for a dispute settlement in a duel in the Iowa District Court. According to court documents, David and Brigitte and his lawyer Matthew Hudson said, 'Wife Brigitte Ostrom has legally destroyed himself.' He said he wanted to meet at a place. He also asked the court to give him 12 weeks to make a sword and armpit.

`` In the United States of America, the right to conduct a duel trial is not explicitly barred or restricted, '' `` most recently a duel trial was held in the United Kingdom in 1818, '' David said You.

In 2016, it was in the news that Philip Minnard, a judge at the New York County Court, acknowledged that 'the duel trial has not been abolished.' David informed the news media, Des Moines Register , of the offer, inspired by the news. According to David, his wife Brigitte can choose lawyer Hudson as the person to fight for himself.

Hudson pointed out that David's allegation was misspelled, and said, `` Ostrom means that from the 'physical', defined by the Webster Dictionary as 'a physical and physical body', I argue that the duel could be fatal and the consequences would be beyond the scope of payable property taxes and custody. I asked the judge to refuse the duel trial.

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Hudson also sought psychiatric testing along with David's deprivation of custody, but David states that he 'has misspelled but no history of mental illness.' In addition, Mr. David refutes Mr. Hudson that dispute resolution by duel may be settled by `` crying '' instead of one death in the past, a case that resolves even if one does not die Pointed out.

The court has not ruled on any of the claims at the time of writing. He doesn't seem to have experienced a duel with a sword, but says, 'I hope the judge will drink the offer.'