Two sharply divergent stories emerged in court today during the trial of a Cook County public defender charged with assaulting an assistant state’s attorney two years ago in a Chicago courthouse.
Both sides essentially agree that the two lawyers exchanged harsh words in June 2010 following a hearing at the Criminal Courts Building in Chicago in which the two men were opposing attorneys on a case.
But Cook County Assistant Public Defender Henry Hams is charged with felony aggravated battery in the case, and at the Skokie courthouse this morning he told the jury he was defending himself against an assault when he grabbed Assistant State’s Atty. Mike McCormick by the neck, threw him to the floor and straddled him to prevent him from getting up.
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