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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, former St. Clair County Judge Michael Cook, right, arrives at the U.S. District Courthouse in East St. Louis, Ill., with his father, Bruce Cook. Michael Cook, who is at the center of a courthouse drug scandal, is to appear Friday morning, March 28, 2014, for a scheduled sentencing at federal court in East St. Louis. Cook resigned last year after being accused of heroin possession and illegally having a firearm. (AP Photo/Belleville News-Democrat, Derik Holtmann, File)
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Former St. Clair County Judge Michael Cook, right, arrives at the U.S. District Courthouse in East St. Louis, Ill., with his father, Bruce Cook. U.S. District Judge Joe Billy McDade on Wednesday rejected a plea deal on heroin and gun charges for the former Illinois judge at the center of a courthouse drug scandal, saying the 18-month prison sentence wasn't long enough. Cook, 43, who has been free on bond, pleaded guilty in November to a misdemeanor heroin-possession charge and a felony count of having firearms while being a user of controlled substances. (AP Photo/Belleville News-Democrat, Derik Holtmann)
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FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2013 file photo, former St. Clair County Judge Michael Cook walks past reporters outside U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, Ill. Cook, a former judge at the center of a courthouse drug scandal involving the cocaine death of a prosecutor-turned-judge is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 26, 2014, in East St. Louis, where he pleaded guilty in November to heroin and gun charges. (AP Photo/Belleville News-Democrat, Derik Holtmann, File)
