Word: juror
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...football hero. The high stakes prompted Bailey and prosecutor Marcia Clark to trade playground-ready insults, leading Judge Lance Ito to ask for an apology from each attorney and to order them not to "engage in gratuitous personal attacks upon each other." At week's end yet another juror was dismissed, the fifth so far. Reports said the man, of mixed racial background, was suspected of writing about the case; he was replaced with an alternate, a white woman...
...Rockingham estate after his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were murdered. Vannatter said police saw two more blood drops inside the front door of Simpson's estate. TIME Los Angeles correspondent Elaine Lafferty says the lengthy trial is taking its toll on the sequestered jurors, who "looked pretty bored today." She noted that a 52-year-old Amtrak manager was dismissed from the jury today because authorities suspected he was writing a book about the trial. The fifth juror to be removed was replaced by a 60-year-old retired woman who has been...
Judge Lance Ito today dismissed a juror in the trial because she was treated by O.J. Simpson's doctor for arthritis. Defense lawyers have claimed that one of the reasons O.J. could not have committed the murders is that he suffers from arthritis. The dismissed juror--a 63-year old white woman--was replaced by a 54-year old black man. The jury now consists of seven women and five men; nine jurors are black, one is white and two are of mixed race...
...mostly African-American jury of eight women and four men, this was the day's denouement. They were out of the courtroom by the time Judge Ito--informed that a hapless Court TV cameraman had slipped and televised the face of one alternate juror for a fraction of a second--excoriated the press and threatened to shut down the television cameras altogether. But as has happened before, Ito brandished a stick that he ultimately declined to use: he relented the next morning and let the show...
COURT TV CAMERAPERSON Glimpse of alternate juror almost scuttles TV coverage of O.J. trial