Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe BOSTON, May 24 (UPI) -- A murder suspect about to go on trial in Boston used his handcuffs in a failed attempt to strangle his defense attorney, a report said Wednesday. It took half a dozen Suffolk County, Mass., Superior Court and Boston police officers Tuesday to break John Gomes' choke hold on lawyer Bruce Carroll. Advertisement "It all happened pretty quickly," Carroll told the Boston Herald. "I ended up on the floor next to the jury box." Carroll, 59, said he was sore after the attack. "I had moved to withdraw (as Gomes' attorney) last week and that was denied. There was a breakdown in the relationship. I certainly didn't anticipate anything like this," Carroll said. District Attorney Daniel Conley said Gomes threatened to cause trouble last week. "This may have been a premeditated attempt to stop the trial from going forward," Conley said. Instead of returning to jail to await trial in the 2002 shooting death of Ildebrando Correia, Gomes was taken to Boston and charged with armed assault with intent to murder.
