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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...
...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...