Word: hiroshi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SANTA MONICA: Four days into deliberations, jurors in the O.J. Simpson civil trial had to start all over again after Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki dismissed one juror for failure to disclose critical information. The 60-year-old woman, the only African-American on the jury, had not told attorneys during jury selection that her daughter was employed as a legal secretary at the Los Angeles District attorney's office, which prosecuted Simpson during his criminal trial. Her replacement, an Asian-American computer programmer, joins a jury that probably won't deliver a verdict any time soon. After spending 14 hours over...
ALTER-ITO AWARD: The sterner Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki of the second O.J. trial...
...unpredictable 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...