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...meeting to help discuss their future financial options and recommending a particular agent. Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki was livid and launched an investigation. The affair was eerily reminiscent of the circumstance in the criminal trial that resulted in what turned out to be the unwarranted dismissal of Francine Florio-Bunten for trying to capitalize on being a juror while the trial was still going on. Florio-Bunten, who was convinced of Simpson's guilt, never wrote a book, nor tried to. Petrocelli had also learned that Pat McKenna, the defense investigator who had worked in the criminal trial, was again working...
...both works, details of the lawyers' behind-the-scenes machinations remain strangely compelling. Darden describes a jaunt to the Bahamas, where he unsuccessfully pursued a tip that Simpson was planning to flee there the day of the Bronco chase, and both writers float rumors that juror Francine Florio-Bunten was dismissed under suspicious circumstances. Shapiro also reveals that the defense team offered to have Simpson take a lie detector test at the outset, knowing full well that the prosecution would never agree to admit the results, whatever they were, into evidence. And he describes the moment when he realized that...
...hospitalized by the end of the month. After court adjourned on Wednesday, one juror could be seen at her hotel window with an exhausted look on her face, her forehead pressed against the glass pane. "I'm really worried about some of the people still there,'' says Francine Florio-Bunten, a juror dismissed at the end of May. "Some of them are really on the edge...
...book, Kato Kaelin: The Whole Truth, which has 900,000 copies in print, has prompted the prosecution to subpoena 17 hours of taped interviews made available by author Marc Eliot to determine whether Kaelin perjured himself. And one of the latest jurors to be dismissed, Francine Florio-Bunten, got in trouble with Judge Ito in part because of charges, which she has denied, that she was meeting with a literary agent. Although the California legislature attempted to end this chaos by making it a misdemeanor for any juror to profit from a criminal case until 90 days after the conclusion...
While most Americans are celebrating the official start of the summer season, Simpson jurors will be cooling their heels until the trial resumes Tuesday. One juror escaped just in time when Judge Lance Ito dismissed her "for cause" late on Thursday. Francine Floria-Bunten denied rumors that she was caught working on a book about the trial. She was replaced by a 71 year old black woman who said she had never heard of O.J. Simpson before the trial. Eight jurors have been dismissed so far in the trial; only four alternates remain...