Word: fiok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...judge chooses to wait until the end of the trial, "it is generally wise where the marks of the unseemly conduct have left personal stings to ask a fellow judge to take his place." The decision reversed an eleven-to-22-year contempt sentence imposed by Pittsburgh Judge Albert Fiok on a defendant who had called him a "dirty son of a bitch" and a "dirty tyrannical old dog." It also seemed to apply squarely to last year's trial of the Chicago Seven. In that raucous proceeding, Judge Julius Hoffman waited until after the jury began deliberations, then...