Word: juror
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SANTA MONICA: Four days into deliberations, jurors in the O.J. Simpson civil trial had to start all over again after Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki dismissed one juror for failure to disclose critical information. The 60-year-old woman, the only African-American on the jury, had not told attorneys during jury selection that her daughter was employed as a legal secretary at the Los Angeles District attorney's office, which prosecuted Simpson during his criminal trial. Her replacement, an Asian-American computer programmer, joins a jury that probably won't deliver a verdict any time soon. After spending 14 hours over...
...plaintiffs gave it their best shot. For nine hours and two minutes, their lawyers tried to shake the defendant, to provoke an outburst, to spark a defining moment that would convince a majority of the 12 jurors that O.J. Simpson was guilty of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. But the former football star never lost his cool. Asked by plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli, who did the bulk of the interrogating, if he had an explanation for how the blood of his ex-wife and Goldman might have ended up in his Bronco, Simpson...
...days of withering attacks on Simpson's credibility without the expected screen that the defense might have provided in its own line of questioning. Responding to criticism of his strategy, Baker told reporters, "There's a lot of people .. who think they can read the minds of the jurors. We'll see what they say." After Baker made his unexpected announcement, Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki adjourned the court for the Thanksgiving holiday and warned the jury not to discuss the case with friends or family. The caveat carried a particularly harsh edge as Fujisaki was forced just two hours before...
...California Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki, who is presiding over the O.J. Simpson civil trial, about the recent dismissal of an alternate juror who had slept through much of the trial. Judge Fujisaki later apologized for his comment...
...continuing avalanche of O.J. Simpson books by high-profile authors was thinned by one Friday when 'Fatal Vision' author Joe McGinniss said he was abandoning his planned account of the trial. Given a front-row seat throughout the trial, McGinniss had planned to cover the story as the '13th juror' by avoiding other media coverage. But nearly a year after the event, McGinniss decided there wasn't a whole lot of there there. In a letter to his publisher explaining why he was ditching both the book and a $1.7 million advance, McGinniss said the trial "sapped my intellect...