FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2016, file photo, Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan presides over a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building in Chicago for Jason Van Dyke, a Chicago police officer charged with murder in the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald. He's presided over some of the biggest trials in recent Chicago history _ from a mass murder case to that of R& B singer R. Kelly on child pornography charges. Now Gaughan is at the center of one of the city's biggest trials in decades. The trial caps a career and a life that have included chapters as an engineering student, war hero, young man who had his own brush with the law, attorney and judge. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Pool, File)
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