Jordan Lawyer, 29, of Enosburgh. Photo via Vermont State PoliceA Vermont judge is considering whether to continue to hold an Enosburgh man charged with killing his father and seriously injuring his mother with a baseball bat earlier this month in custody without bail.Jordan Lawyer, 29, through his attorney, pleaded not guilty Oct. 7 to several charges including second-degree murder and aggravated assault stemming from the attack on his parents three days earlier at a home they all shared.He has been held in custody without bail since his arrest shortly after the incident.At a hearing Wednesday afternoon in Franklin County Superior criminal court in St. Albans, Judge Alison Arms heard arguments from the prosecutor and Lawyer’s defense attorney over whether Lawyer should remain in prison as he awaits trial.“This brutal killing demonstrates the gravity of the defendant’s public safety risk,” Franklin County Deputy State’s Attorney Andrew Watts told the judge, arguing that the evidence against Lawyer met the standard needed to hold a person without bail.“The defendant left the scene shortly after the homicide in a motor vehicle,” the prosecutor added. “(Lawyer) intended to evade officers pursuing him on public highways at a high speed.”Lawyer ultimately crashed into a law enforcement vehicle and was taken into custody, Watts said.Defense attorney Paul Groce contended that Lawyer was a lifelong resident of Franklin County and should be entitled to have bail set. However, he also noted that Lawyer was unlikely to be able to post any bail amount.“At this phase,” Groce said, “certainly he doesn’t have money to post bail, so if he was given bail he probably would not leave the facility, but it certainly wouldn’t be a hold without bail, your honor.”  Arms said she would make a decision about whether to set bail at a later time. According to charging documents, Lawyer repeatedly struck both his father, Todd Lawyer, and his mother, Robin Lawyer, with a baseball bat as they returned to their home on the morning of Oct. 4.Jordan Lawyer was outside the residence when they arrived, the documents stated. According to a statement provided by his mother to investigators, he had removed the furniture from inside the residence.  Todd Lawyer, 54, was killed in the attack, with the Vermont Chief Medical Examiner’s Officer determining his cause of death to be blunt force trauma to his head.Robin Lawyer, 58, who police said suffered significant injuries, was hospitalized but has since been released. At Wednesday’s hearing, Watts played a video statement from Robin Lawyer who described the attack. “He just had that look on his face,” she said, referring to her son. “I know that look. He wasn’t there. Jordan was not there.” A couple of times during his mother’s recounting of the attack, Jordan Lawyer interrupted the court proceeding, stating in a loud voice, “She’s lying.” Twice previously Jordan Lawyer has been found incompetent to stand trial on criminal charges stemming from two previous alleged attacks on his parents, most recently in 2022.He is currently awaiting a competency evaluation ordered by the judge following his arraignment on the latest charges earlier this month.Adam Silverman, a Vermont State Police spokesperson, said Wednesday that Lawyer has been the subject of an investigation stemming from his alleged assault of a corrections officer after that arraignment. At the arraignment, Lawyer appeared by video from the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans.The corrections officer, Silverman added, was taken to the hospital for treatment and was later released that same day. Read the story on VTDigger here: Judge weighs bail for Enosburgh man charged in bat attack that killed father, injured mother .