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Title: Ascot Borders on Contemptuous Post by: dystopia on January 09, 2008, 02:24:07 PM Not-so-natty neckwear raises judge's hackles http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=705084 Quote Justice may be blind, but Milwaukee County Circuit Judge William Sosnay's sense of courtroom fashion is not. In the courtroom of the pompadoured judge long known as a fastidious dresser, a sentencing hearing in a misdemeanor case was delayed for three hours Tuesday after a veteran prosecutor turned up for court wearing an ascot. A courthouse rule requires all lawyers to wear neckties, but prosecutor Warren Zier's occasional choice of creative cravats drew the judge's ire. Sosnay's review found Zier's red ascot - which matched the handkerchief in the breast pocket of Zier's pinstriped gray suit - "borders on contemptuous," given the judge's prior warnings that he only cottons to neck- and bow-ties. (more...) Title: Re: Ascot Borders on Contemptuous Post by: Uisce Beatha on January 09, 2008, 02:27:14 PM (http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39182000/jpg/_39182152_fans_pa300x300.jpg)
Surrenders. Title: Re: Ascot Borders on Contemptuous Post by: gleek on January 09, 2008, 02:35:06 PM Quote "Mr. Zier, you are out of order!" "You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order!" iIAODV43YGU Title: Re: Ascot Borders on Contemptuous Post by: stroh on January 09, 2008, 03:58:53 PM fred.surrenders
Title: Re: Ascot Borders on Contemptuous Post by: Clive on January 09, 2008, 05:55:01 PM Sorry, lawyer dude and haberdasher dude, it that is not formal attire when worn as here:
(http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/news/img/jan08/ascot_010907_big.jpg) (That's the lawyer, and that's his snappy red ascot neckwear.) |