Word: fujisaki
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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ALTER-ITO AWARD: The sterner Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki of the second O.J. trial...
...witnesses.) Probably the most controversial testimony came from a worker for a battered woman's shelter who told how a frightened woman named Nicole called the facility a few days before the murders saying that her famous ex-husband was stalking and threatening her. A day later, Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki instructed the jury that they could consider the telephone call only as an indicator of Nicole's state of mind. (That testimony was excluded from the murder trial as hearsay...
JUDGE HIROSHI FUJISAKI Gets witnesses off stand fast with no-nonsense rulings. Can he work on Clinton's Inaugural...
...idea for the O.J. Civil Trial came about when Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki barred cameras from his courtroom during the current Simpson case. E! had watched its ratings skyrocket during the network's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the criminal trial, and executives reasoned that the daily dramatizations would be the best way to give viewers their O.J. fix. "The re-enactments take people inside the courtroom," defends John Rieber, E!'s programming vice president, "and that's where they want to be." Indeed, the O.J. Civil Trial has doubled E!'s audience for the 8 p.m. time slot...
...notes on the mannerisms and inflections displayed by the lawyers and witnesses in the trial. Then the reporters brief the actors, who act out the most pertinent snippets of the day with the aid of a TelePrompTer. Harshly lighted, and staged in a fake courtroom modeled to look like Fujisaki's, they seem neither realistic nor dramatic but rather like mini-episodes of the People's Court...