Word: ito
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprise while questioning Criminalist Collin Yamauchi when he blurted out on the witness stand that heinitially believed that O.J. Simpson had "an airtight alibi."In the ensuing commotion, the jury was hustled out of the courtroom while prosecutors frantically attempted damage control. WhenSimpson attorney Johnnie Cochran, addressing Judge Ito, called Prosecutor Marcia Clark "hysterical,"Clark shot back that his "sexist" remark was unacceptable. Simpson chuckled, watching this exchange. Clark insisted that Yamauchi's comment was not based on any knowledge of O.J.'s initial statement to the police, and should be disregarded. Ito did not immediately rule on whether...
...Ito Steps on the Accelerator...
Having quelled a jury mutiny and narrowly averted a mistrial, Judge Lance Ito took heed of complaints about the turgid pace of the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Ito told attorneys to speed up their questioning, tossed out some obstreperous spectators and even said the lunch break would be shortened. Testimony was largely taken up by the defense's exhaustive efforts to show that a police criminalist was both incompetent and an integral player in a complex police conspiracy against Simpson...
...offended anyone, I'm sorry." --U.S. Senator Al D'Amato's first apology for mocking Simpson judge Lance Ito with a pseudo-Japanese accent...
...What Ito will try to do is placate the jury without tainting their deliberations. Now that he has allowed the panelists to air their grievances, "to put the genie back in the bottle is much more difficult,'' says Minnesota's Penrod. "If I were in his situation, I would bring the jury in and underscore the seriousness of their undertaking and the fact that their attention really needs to be fastened on the courtroom.'' Then, perhaps, the judge could do a better job of picking up the pace and give them something to hold their attention from one grueling...