HUTCHINSON — A 27-year-old Hutchinson man charged with attempted first-degree murder after he allegedly attacked Reno County Attorney Keith Schroeder is scheduled for preliminary hearing Wednesday.
Michael Sherman is charged with the attempted murder count or an alternative count of aggravated battery. The case is being prosecuted by the Kansas Attorney General’s Office and a former Reno County assistant attorney, Greg Benefiel.
Sherman is alleged to have attacked Schroeder after retired Judge William “Buck” Lyle upheld his sentence in a child sex case. Sherman is alleged to have jumped on Schroeder who was sitting at the prosecution table a few feet away. According to the complaint, he wrapped his jail chain around Schroeder’s neck. Jail officer Lance Francis then jumped on both and put Sherman into a choke hold. Schroeder received a minor cut to his right forehead as a result.
Sherman earlier was convicted of aggravated criminal sodomy of his own infant child in August 2012. He admitted he was alone with the child and was watching pornography on his cellphone, then sodomized the child.
Wednesday’s hearing will be before Judge Joe McCarville.