Word: ito
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extraordinary O.J. Simpson murder trial ground to a halt, as prosecution objections and vitriolic exchanges between opposing attorneys interrupted opening arguments and sent Judge Lance Ito scurrying to his chambers to sort things out. The disruption occurred when prosecutors accused defense attorneys of telling the jury about witnesses and witness statements they had not disclosed to prosecutors, a possible violation of California law. "Appalling," "disgusting" and "trial by ambush," charged the prosecution. Nonsense, countered Simpson's attorneys, admitting to a few inadvertent mistakes and blasting the prosecution for baldly trying to "shut up" the defense. Before the halt, both sides...
Published on a day Judge Ito's court was not in session, the book took the baton from the recessed murder trial for one more lap in the nastiest relay in memory and succeeded in 1) giving the defendant a one-sided word with the world without the unpleasantness of cross-examination or any of the other tethers of jurisprudence; 2) restocking the larder against legal fees, the meter running like it is; and 3) stealing the thunder from another book brought out--there are no coincidences--just days before. This one, Raging Heart, is a work from the other...
...such highbrow language hardly captures the raw reality of Judge Ito's courtroom last week, where each day brought a new spike in the players' emotional temperatures--and further discomfited the millions of TV viewers who thought they knew what to think about O.J. Over kitchen tables, in restaurants, around office coffee machines, people debated the lawyers' opening statements, critiqued Judge Ito's style, expressed amazement over snapshots of Simpson's body offered up by the defense and photos of Simpson's socks displayed by the prosecution...
Such viewers could only watch, transfixed, the spectacle of surprise witnesses, new details of blood and fibers, a testy Ito and lawyers positively sputtering with outrage. Who could have predicted that among those holding press conferences would be doctors from the California Medical Center, reporting on the condition of deputy district attorney William Hodgman, who was stricken with chest pains at the end of Day Two? Hodgman, ordinarily mild-mannered, got so upset in court that Ito said, ``How do you suggest I deal with the objections of the prosecution after I succeed in peeling them off the ceiling?'' Ito...
...peace of mind. I will not have the blood of Nicole on Ron Shipp. I can sleep at night, unlike a lot of others." While Shipp's testimony appears to bolster the prosecution, some legal experts said that by allowing dreams to enter the courtroom, Judge Lance Ito had opened up an opportunity for the defense to appeal a guilty verdict. "I think it's safe to say that we don't usually try people based on dreams," said Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School. Still, the testimony so far shows "the prosecution has come...