John Sirica never shied away from a fight.
He coached boxers three nights a week while in law school, sparred with an ex-welterweight champion and won a match that prompted a local paper to call him a “great little mitt artist.”
Sirica was a loyal Republican who was appointed to a federal judgeship in Washington by President Dwight Eisenhower and rose to …
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