Captive audience // Man begins 1-month sentence as court observer

Ron Fijal sat in court Monday.

And sat.

And sat.

Fijal, 52, has been sentenced to a month in court by a judgefrustrated over his failure to clean up ground contaminants at histransmission service.

After watching the way Circuit Judge Stephen A. Schiller handleda rather dull court call Monday - the first day of his sentence -Fijal said he was impressed.

"It's interesting," Fijal said at the Daley Center. "One lawyerargues against another lawyer, and the judge has to figure out who'slying."

Court veterans predicted the novelty would soon wear off.

"Maybe he should bring a pillow," said one, in reference to thehard wooden …