Word: roit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Denise Brown, Nicole's sister, also attended every day, and the proximity of the families led to a few near blowups. At one point Simpson's sister Shirley Baker began playing tic-tac-toe on a note pad during testimony. Juditha turned to the Brown family lawyer Natasha Roit and said, "And this is the woman who will be caring for the children...
Brown family attorney Natasha Roit charged that the judge had failed to consider the children's statements to a court-appointed psychiatrist; statements, she said, that would have shown that they had witnessed domestic violence in the Simpson home. Said Roit: "I believe the children are at substantial risk with Simpson. This is a man who committed domestic violence in the past and continues to deny...
...Browns, the omens had been bad from the beginning. Although she could have considered it, Judge Wieben Stock disallowed evidence from O.J.'s criminal murder trial. She rejected Roit's request that she at least review portions of the 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...
...production of the Ring is as sacred to Wagnerians as the one that takes place at their holy see -- Bayreuth (pronounced buy-roit). Wagner founded the music festival first held there in 1876 and designed its theater, the Festspielhaus. He engineered the completion of the theater specifically for this 15 1/2-hour tetralogy about a peculiarly human race of gods and demigods who were ruined by their greed for a cursed treasure of gold. Heads of state -- from mad King Ludwig of Bavaria to the much madder Adolf Hitler -- have made the pilgrimage to this isolated city in northern Bavaria...