This just in, from Above the Law:
“A Cook County prosecutor was hospitalized this morning after being choked in a hallway of the 26th and California criminal courthouse, allegedly by an assistant public defender, police said.
“The 50-year-old assistant state’s attorney “might be injured very badly,” an official could be heard telling prosecutors at the courthouse. But another source said the prosecutor was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital only for observation.”
Reading between the lines here, and as a veteran defense attorney once exclaimed to the undersigned—as we sighed “I hate victims” as a witness made his way into court on crutches:
“You have been doing this too long”.
Jim Wagner was right-we just did not realize it until 20 years later.
Read more:
Lawyer of the Day: Public Defender Needs Defending (Above the Law)
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