Jason starts off on a self-destructive streak that leads to being expelled from school, through foster homes and finally to an appointment with a no-nonsense judge.

A no-nonsense judge who penalizes the prosecution for an apparent blunder.

But the next trial before Justice Gammerman will pit a famously excessive lawyer against the notoriously no-nonsense judge.

In most of these high-profile tasks, Mr. Lacey has emerged with his reputation as a tough ex-prosecutor and no-nonsense judge burnished all the more.

He's a consistently law-and-order judge, a no-nonsense judge.

"He's a no-nonsense judge, no air of formality," Mr. Alperin said.

"Friedman's presence raised some eyebrows," the story read, "since Snyder is running as a no-nonsense former judge who took on some of the most serious felons."

He would not be happy, as a no-nonsense judge, with lawyers who posture.

Mr. Kowtna was known as a productive, strict, no-nonsense judge.

A14 Law Page B7 The no-nonsense judge running the Smith rape trial.