Word: ito
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MARCIA CLARK Mediocre prosecutor yields mediocre tome: $4 million for a self-promoting take on O.J. and Ito...
...notch co-author, Teresa Carpenter, who is a Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist and the author of the riveting true-crime tale Missing Beauty. So while Without a Doubt has little to offer for the history books, it is well written, sometimes moving and occasionally amusing. At one point, Judge Lance Ito is compared with Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now: "increasingly cryptic and vain." And the anecdotes about fellow prosecutor Christopher Darden reveal a sweet rapport and a complex relationship. (As for the $64,000 question, Clark writes, tough-guy style, "The question is irrelevant. Fact of the matter is, Chris Darden...
JUDGE RICHARD MATSCH He's no Ito. No-nonsense Oklahoma bomb-trial judge shields jurors and gets show on the road...
...recent reversal of fortune that has outraged many of the more than 22,000 losers in Keating's junk-bond schemes, all his convictions have been thrown out. Last April, a federal court found that O.J.-judge Lance Ito, who presided at Keating's 1991 California state trial, had bungled the job by issuing faulty instructions to the jury. Then, just last December, came an even bigger shock: a federal judge ruled that Keating's 1993 federal conviction was tainted. And in a separate rebuke, a three-judge federal appeals panel declared that the evidence of his guilt...
...ALTER-ITO AWARD: The sterner Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki of the second O.J. trial...