Word: ito
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decade -- at least if O.J. Simpson's defense team has its way. Simpson's attorneys filed a motion today to forego the so-called "Kelly-Frye hearing" on the admissibility of DNA evidence -- slated to begin on January 4 and last four to eight weeks. If Judge Lance Ito okays the motion it would move up the trial significantly from the earlier March estimate. The Simpson team said that a "separate, time-consuming" -- and undoubtedly much-publicized -- pretrial hearing would bias the sitting jury and thereby violate Simpson's rights. It represents a complete turnabout in the strategy adopted...
...Ito: No Conflict...
...police captain Margaret York, who happens to be married to Lance Ito, the judge presiding over the O.J. Simpson murder trial, said she does not remember any disagreements with detective Mark Fuhrman. Simpson defense lawyers are hoping to portray Fuhrman, who discovered important evidence against Simpson, as a racist and a woman hater; the attorneys were also hoping to catch Judge Ito in a conflict of interest because of his wife...
...attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. said in a hearing. "She has taken it upon herself to misconstrue, to put her own spin on interpretations." Brown has implied in television interviews that Simpson committed the murders. The impact of her statements became clear when a prospective alternate juror told Judge Lance Ito he had seen Brown on TV. Asked by the judge what he heard her say, the man blurted out: "She said he did it." (He was dismissed.) But prosecutor Marcia Clark said Brown's statements were a repercussion of the defense's own media manipulation. "Don't make the first...
JUDGE LANCE ITO...