Word: reiner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Appeals ordered Ito to abandon his proposed instructions. Now it is unclear whether the defense will continue fighting to have Ito make some reference to Fuhrman. Still, the prosecution is scrambling. "The prosecution's case has been reduced to a pile of rubble," says former L.A. district attorney Ira Reiner. "They have nothing less to do than rebuild their entire case. If they don't, they can kiss away any chance of a hung jury-forget a conviction...
...past 10 years. And at worst, depending on what portions of the tapes, if any, Ito permits the jury to hear, Fuhrman has breathed life into the defense's pet theory: that Simpson is an innocent victim of a racist police conspiracy. Former Los Angeles district attorney Ira Reiner explains: "It is not that the tapes should influence the case by any objective standard. The issue is subjective importance. They will overwhelm the jury. If those tapes come in-and they are as advertised-acquittal is a probability. A hung jury becomes a mere possibility...
...faculty members are Reiner H. Kraakman, professor of law; Peter V. Marsden, professor of sociology; Scott P. Mason, Converse professor of finance and banking; Eleanor G. Shore, medical school dean for faculty affairs; Kay Kaufman Shelemay, professor of music and David A. Wise, Stambaugh professor of political economy in the Kennedy school of government...
...professor will leave one part of a concept unexplained, and ask you in a problem set to draw a conclusion," says Cedar Reiner '98. "He will leave blank gaps in logic for you to fill...
...terrible drama: "My pedicurist had a stroke!" (as he was doing her left foot, she thunders, "the pain was terrible"). She overacts so gorgeously that when she apostrophizes Shayne ("O pungent, seething artist!") the ludicrousness of the line is not too much for her to carry off. Even Rob Reiner (as the crusty, unsuccessful playwright Sheldon Flender) manages to tell Shayne, who is cheating on his wife (Mary-Louise Parker), that the artist "creates his own moral universe" with a straight face...