A former client has been arrested in an attack on a Sonoma County public defender, according to the Santa Rosa Police Department.
Leon Simms, 44, was booked into Sonoma County Jail on suspicion of robbery, attempted kidnapping, criminal threats and battery causing serious injury in the attack, police said.
Officers responded to a report of an assault outside the Sonoma County Courthouse at 12:37 p.m. Thursday, police said. Simms, who had fled the scene, struck the victim several times in the face, stole personal property, and threatened further violence and kidnapping, police said…