Word: ouderkirk
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...that fail to find a defendant guilty on a serious charge have the option of convicting on a lesser one not specified in the original indictment. At the conclusion of trial testimony, Faal took a crucial gamble. Exercising a right of defense, he moved successfully to have Judge John Ouderkirk instruct jurors that if they failed to convict Williams of premeditated attempted murder, they could not consider a lesser charge. That left jurors no choice between attempted murder and acquittal on that most serious count...
...riot won't break out.' That wasn't on our mind," said a female juror, who appeared in silhouette on a Los Angeles news program with her voice altered electronically. "If a riot occurred, it would occur." But a day before the final verdicts, the jury forewoman told Judge Ouderkirk that "one juror has expressed fear for herself and her family...
...symbol of the disparity between how whites and blacks are treated by the criminal-justice system. Many Angelenos fear that a volatile situation will be created if the four officers are exonerated and the Denny defendants are found guilty. Thus a ruling last week by Superior Court Judge John Ouderkirk produced a collective, if temporary, sigh of relief. He postponed the Denny trial until July, which will give the defense time to bolster its claim that the prosecution is racially motivated. The defense points to what it describes as a decade-long pattern of discriminatory prosecutions. If the judge agrees...
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