Word: okhotin
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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Despite the fact that the judge had gone so far as to laugh at one of the customs agents earlier in the trial, Okhotin said he was shaken by his brusque attitude to the defense lawyers...
...This made me think this was not going to be fair,” Okhotin said afterwards, adding that the judge seemed to display “overt hostility” towards his cause early in the trial...
...Okhotin said he was particularly disturbed by the judge’s decision to disallow any audio recordings or cameras, and his stern attitude while requesting Okhotin’s name and address more than once...
...Obviously there’s a subterranean intensity to all of this,” Okhotin said. “But on the surface you try to remain calm...
...think the case that we were making and the evidence there was compelling enough that if the judge continued the way he began the trial it would be obvious to everyone that he was biased,” Okhotin said afterward. “There was a change...