A Staten Island attorney stands accused of assisting a client in committing fraud, and he’s being sued for it, in a civil case. Which very soon will bring about a trial, with a judge.

If he gets his request fulfilled, however, it’ll be a trial for the ages. A trial you’ll tell your grandchildren. A trial … by combat.

And the lawyer (and plaintiff), Richard A. Luthmann, isn’t kidding. Here’s what he wrote in brief he filed in state Supreme Court, St. George:

The allegations made by plaintiffs, aided and abetted by their counsel, border upon the criminal,As such, the undersigned (Luthmann) respectfully requests that the court permit the undersigned to dispatch plaintiffs and their counsel to the Divine Providence of the Maker for Him to exact His divine judgment once the undersigned has released the souls of the plaintiffs and their counsel from their corporeal bodies, personally and or by way of a champion.

In the event the case against him is not dismissed, he requests a trial where the disputants (or their stand-ins) fight to the death. Luthmann contends that trial by combat was never outlawed in the United States or in New York state.

According to the Staten Island Advance, the counselor is trying to be funny, and highlight how “ludicrous allegations against him” are.

More from the Advance:

“They want to be absurd about what they’re trying to do, then I’ll give them back ridiculousness in kind,” said Luthmann, an admitted fan of “Game of Thrones,” the smash HBO series based on the George R.R. Martin books in which three disputes have been settled in its five seasons through bloody trials by combat.

“If these people want to insist on having it out, then we’ll have it out,” said Luthmann, who’s tilted at a few windmills over the years, as evidenced by his numerous battles with local Democratic Party leaders.

Richard Chusid, the lawyer for the plaintiffs Benjamin Foley, Richard Foley, Ryan McGetrick and Brian Hale, could not immediately be reached for comment.

But really, take a second and look at this guy (with his spinning bowtie). In a fight to the death, who exactly is he defeating?