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Fez causes stir in courtroom
wsbt ^ | 05/25/10 | DAVE STEPHENS

Posted on 05/25/2010 7:24:28 PM PDT by hoosierboy

SOUTH BEND — An Elkhart man was placed in handcuffs Monday and threatened with 230 days in jail after he refused a judge’s order to remove his fez.

According to police reports, the 56-year-old man was attending a court hearing Monday for his son in St. Joseph Superior Court Judge John M. Marnocha’s courtroom when court staff asked the man to remove his fez.

The man refused, saying it was his constitutional right to wear the fez – a tall, round hat usually adorned with a tassel – and refused to take it off.

Workers inside the courtroom said the man then began shouting at the sheriff’s deputies who were trying to remove him from the courtroom.

"He caused a big ruckus, he didn’t want to take the hat off," court reporter Bill Mitchell said. "He wouldn’t listen to the judge."

Police report that the incident became so heated that Marnocha, frustrated at the man’s refusal to calm down, ruled him in contempt of court and ordered him to serve 230 days in jail.

Deputies then placed the man in handcuffs and removed him from the courtroom, taking him to the area of the courthouse basement where inmates are transferred to jail.

After the morning’s court proceedings were completed, Marnocha called the man back to his courtroom and dismissed the contempt charges after the man apologized.

Efforts to contact the man by The Tribune were not successful.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: fez; shriners; tassels
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No mention of the guys name, race, religion..........hmmm
1 posted on 05/25/2010 7:24:28 PM PDT by hoosierboy
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Shriner?


2 posted on 05/25/2010 7:26:02 PM PDT by PAR35
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3 posted on 05/25/2010 7:27:10 PM PDT by Krankor
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Turkish or Shriner?


4 posted on 05/25/2010 7:27:41 PM PDT by mnehring
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“Police report that the incident became so heated that Marnocha, frustrated at the man’s refusal to calm down, ruled him in contempt of court and ordered him to serve 230 days in jail.”

I’m sure he was a jerk, but 230 day???


5 posted on 05/25/2010 7:28:13 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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I'm never going to do it without the fez on.

Please understand. I want to be your holy man

6 posted on 05/25/2010 7:28:15 PM PDT by Tribune7 (It is immoral to claim the tea parties to be racist)
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7 posted on 05/25/2010 7:28:50 PM PDT by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
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The Shriners will get ‘im.


8 posted on 05/25/2010 7:28:52 PM PDT by Thud
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okay - so I thought this was about that foreign kid on That 70’s show.....


9 posted on 05/25/2010 7:29:03 PM PDT by mom4melody
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The surname Marnocha is found mostly in Deutschland, Northern Indiana and Milwaukee.

It seems to be a German surname. Remember the comic strip "Hoosier Day Shift"? Sometimes a German character would wear a fez. Same with The Captain and the Kids. The Captain always wore a fez.

Although better known as a Turkish custom, the fez had its aficionados in the Midwest and along the Rhine.

10 posted on 05/25/2010 7:29:52 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: windcliff; onedoug

11 posted on 05/25/2010 7:31:57 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
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My post (above) is already the primary reference on Google.com for this thread and for the word “fez” used in the context of “hoosier”.


12 posted on 05/25/2010 7:32:25 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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Shriner? I hope not.


13 posted on 05/25/2010 7:42:08 PM PDT by oldtimer
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To: muawiyah

Milwaukee went from German to African in the ‘70’s.


14 posted on 05/25/2010 7:44:04 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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15 posted on 05/25/2010 7:47:59 PM PDT by GSP.FAN (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
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Two peas in a pod-duh!


16 posted on 05/25/2010 7:48:31 PM PDT by I still care (I believe in the universality of freedom -George Bush, asked if he regrets going to war.)
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I’m sure he was a jerk, but 230 day???

A tenth of that would have still been overkill.

Maybe the judge was trying to make a point.

17 posted on 05/25/2010 7:49:10 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: hoosierboy

Elijah Muhammad (Black Muslim leader) used to wear a fez IIRC.


18 posted on 05/25/2010 7:51:49 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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Take off your hat. Put your left hand on the Bible. Raise your right hand. Take off your hat!!

19 posted on 05/25/2010 7:58:40 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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Marnocha’s the judge.


20 posted on 05/25/2010 8:03:39 PM PDT by ItsForTheChildren (Why does Al Gore hate trees?)
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