Word: ito
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sentence--for fraud. The judge, whose ruling could lead to a retrial, said several jurors were prejudiced by knowledge of Keating's 1991 conviction on similar charges in a California state court. That verdict vaporized too: a federal appeals court overturned it last April on grounds that Judge Lance Ito (of O.J. fame) had given jurors improper instructions...
...observers to decipher. In reality, this is turning out to be a very different trial, with key pieces of evidence, including the bloody shoe prints, and the time line being cast in an entirely new light. Rulings by Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki--who has been nicknamed the anti-Ito for his decisive, suffer-no-fools demeanor--have also caused significant shifts in strategy. Last week, for example, Fujisaki ruled that videotapes of former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman's testimony could not be shown to jurors, while earlier rulings have made it difficult for the defense to offer...
...LANCE ITO, 46; LOS ANGELES Simpson criminal-trial judge
...year since the "Trial of the Century" ended, Judge Ito has kept a low profile. Unlike other O.J. players, he has declined to write a book or otherwise exploit his celebrity status, though he has spoken on a number of occasions to lawyers' groups. Nonetheless, among L.A. courthouse wags, "pulling an Ito" has entered the legal lexicon to describe someone who has become intoxicated by a celebrity case. Gawkers still occasionally wander into Ito's courtroom, now located on a higher floor, to see the familiar face preside over routine criminal trials. Last April Ito suffered a setback: a federal...
CONVICTION OVERTURNED. CHARLES KEATING, 72; on swindling charges in the collapsed Lincoln Savings & Loan case; in Los Angeles. A federal judge threw out the results of Keating's state trial and excoriated Judge Lance Ito for giving flawed instructions to the jury. Keating remains in prison on federal charges...