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...Angeles area have risen by 8% since the Simpson case erupted. One city council member reports being cornered at the gym by would-be jurors. From as far away as Minnesota and Florida, people eager -- avid! -- to do their official duty have been phoning the offices of Judge Lance Ito and District Attorney Gil Garcetti. That out-of-staters are ineligible is no barrier to their civic-mindedness...
Judge Lance Ito identified 311 potential jurors for the O.J. Simpson case today, completing the first round in the selection process. The next step: all 311 candidates get grilled by attorneys on both sides next month. The goal is to narrow the field down to 12 finalists and eight alternates for the trial, which will begin in earnest in November...
...desire to charge ahead, Ito quashed a motion by the prosecution to defer the jury selection until after a hearing on the admissibility of DNA evidence in the case. The DA's office had asked for the delay because they could then pick a jury "untainted" by any media coverage of DNA results that come out in the hearing -- a well-known prosecution ploy, says TIME Law Reporter Andrea Sachs. "They don't want the jury to hear any of the outside information. They want a sequestered jury," says Sachs. "A sequestered jury is often a hanging jury...
Jury selection's the one thing that's proceeding briskly in the O.J. Simpson case. That's the word straight from Judge Lance Ito, who said that all 1,000 prospects may not be even be needed for the first round of elimination in the trial. Today, 72 people said they had no problems serving -- adding to the 100 who made the first cut yesterday. This part of the process is expected to last through Thursday, after which the attorneys from both sides get to question the candidates. Ito was on such a roll today that he even postponed...
...Lance Ito is God," he says