Cook Co. prosecutor choked by attorney: witnesses

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

An attorney, believed to be a Cook County prosecutor, was hospitalized this morning after another attorney choked him on the first floor of the Cook County Criminal Court building at 26th and California, witnesses said.

A defense attorney told a bystander that he hit the other attorney because he was "sick of him mocking him.'' An official was heard telling Cook County prosecutors the victim "might be injured very badly'' and that a police report was being taken.

Just a reminder, this is not an Onion story.