Word: juditha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Denise Brown could not sit still. The sister of Nicole Brown Simpson was expecting the worst and knew how the news would arrive: by fax from the Orange County, California, judge who was deciding where O.J. Simpson's two children would live. Desperate for distraction, Denise and her mother Juditha set off on a Christmas shopping trip, looking for snowboarding equipment...
...that might be canceled if she went back to live with her father. Meanwhile, Sydney's brother Justin, 8, and another cousin were playing together--until television camera crews began their vigil outside. Relatives whisked the kids away in a van. By 3:30 p.m., Denise and Juditha Brown had returned, and the fax rolled out of the machine. Denise broke into tears...
...page decision, Orange County Superior Court Judge Nancy Wieben Stock terminated Lou and Juditha Brown's guardianship of the children, declaring they had failed to prove, as California law requires, that a return to Simpson's custody would be detrimental to the children. From his Brentwood home, O.J. Simpson issued a "first and final" statement about regaining custody, saying he was "grateful to have the children home again where they want to be." He requested that the media and the public "allow my children their privacy and to live in as normal an environment as possible...
...criminal-trial transcript. Furthermore, according to sources close to the family, the Browns were even more frustrated by Marjorie Fuller, the court-appointed lawyer representing the children. The Browns said Fuller rarely spoke to them, and noted that Fuller visited their home on only one occasion, interviewing Juditha and Lou separately for one hour. In fact, Fuller was a forceful advocate for returning the children to their biological father. The Browns had tried but failed to get Fuller removed from the case. The lawyer reportedly billed nearly $200,000 to the children's estate for the eight-month case. Fuller...
...always going to require deft storytelling, but now the task has been made even more difficult. By the end of last week, the plaintiffs had presented 31 witnesses who refuted almost everything O.J. said when he was on the witness stand. And the emotional testimony by Nicole's mother, Juditha Brown, could make it even riskier for Baker to deliver on the promise he made in his opening statement to prove that Nicole recklessly consorted with drug dealers and prostitutes. On the defense witness list: Nicole's former friend Cora Fischman, who is expected to testify that at the time...