Jeremy Jorgenson will be sentenced in December. Prosecutors had charged the 44-year-old with felony child abuse and witness tampering. Those charges were reduced in exchange for his pleas.

Prosecutors say the 7-year-old son of Jorgenson’s wife threw a toy at Jorgenson on Feb. 19, who then chased him, picked him up by his shirt collar and dropped him. One of the boy’s wrists was broken.

Jorgenson was part of the defense team for Anthony Garcia, who was convicted of killing four Omaha residents. Prosecutors say Garcia was seeking revenge for his firing from a Creighton University medical school program. Jorgenson handled much of the questioning of DNA experts in the Garcia case.