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CHICAGO, June 4 (UPI) -- A public defender was arrested at a Chicago courthouse after allegedly choking a county prosecutor and scuffling with sheriff's deputies.
Assistant Cook County public defender Henry Hams, 47, was arrested at the criminal courthouse Thursday and charged with felony aggravated battery in a public place and felony resisting arrest, The Chicago Sun-Times reported Friday.
Cook County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Patterson said Hams put a 50-year-old assistant state's attorney in a choking headlock and scuffled with Cook County sheriff's deputies who tried to pull him away from the other man. The victim and one of the deputies were treated for non-life-threatening injuries at Mount Sinai Hospital and later released.
Hams told authorities after the incident that he was "sick'' of being "mocked'' by the victim. Police said the two lawyers had argued in Judge Clayton Crane's courtroom earlier Thursday about the next court date for a post-conviction hearing.
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