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Judge Lance Ito, who is presiding in the California court case, has requested memos from the members of the required "Introduction to Lawyering" on the question of allowing cameras in the courtroom...
...Ito's law clerk called Nesson last Tuesday with the unusual request. The judge must make his decision by November...
Once again, O.J. Simpson's defense attorneys spent much of the week challenging the admissibility of key evidence seized by police, this time from Simpson's Ford Bronco. And once again, Judge Lance Ito ruled in favor of the prosecution. The judge also continued his attack on the press, scheduling a November hearing to determine whether or not to pull the plug on television cameras in the courtroom...
...chief and the spokesman for the department to testify in court under subpoena. KNBC-TV, you recall, was the station that reported DNA tests linked blood on O.J.'s socks to that of Nicole Simpson. KNBC-TV reporter Tracie Savage later said her sources provided inaccurate information. Judge Lance Ito will take up the issue of leaks tomorrow...
...Ito realizes what Frank Rich writes, that "As long as the judge is on television...he has the ability to make and break stars, upstage the election campaign and destroy the productivity of the American workforce [barring the productivity, of course, of Ford Bronco plants]." Would Lance Ito ever consider losing this power and this audience by banning media coverage? The fact that he capitalizes on his center stage situation tells us a bit about the cost of our circus, and what we've become in supporting it. The judge-turned-jester now runs the court...