Word: simpson
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...first indication that something was amiss came Thursday, when Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki called two jurors into chambers to question them about letters sent to them by Brenda Moran and Gina Rhodes Rossborough, two jurors in the Simpson criminal trial. The letters offered moral support and touted the services of a particular media agent. Fujisaki immediately launched an investigation into the matter, since it is illegal to attempt to contact jurors. A team of Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies armed with a search warrant confiscated Moran's computer and files from her home. Moran admitted that she wrote part...
...next day, after a 90-minute hearing closed to the press, Fujisaki dismissed the panel's only African-American juror, Rosemary Caraway, 62, a retired telephone-company dispatcher, over the objections of the lawyers representing the families of Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. The court had learned that the woman had failed to disclose that her daughter worked as a secretary in the office of Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti, who prosecuted Simpson in the criminal case...
...Simpson lawyer Robert Baker moved for a mistrial, which was denied. Plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli asked Fujisaki to sequester the jury for the remainder of their deliberations, citing the likelihood of further interference from aggressive tabloid reporters and book agents, several of whom quickly offered five-figure sums to the dismissed juror for an interview. Fujisaki declined, although he did revoke the courtroom pass of a Los Angeles TV station whose camera crew attempted to follow the jurors' van from the courthouse. He ordered the jurors to avoid all radio, television and newspapers until they reached a verdict...
...verdict. Members of the Goldman family tried to go about their business, but they too were tethered to their cellular phones and pagers, waiting for word. The Brown family was in worse straits, as they lost a bid to stay the decision awarding custody of Sydney and Justin Simpson to their father. Only Simpson seemed to have a strategy for coping with the tension. Fielding media requests for postverdict interviews, he reiterated that he needed money and would consider speaking only for cash. Beyond that, friends said, he was busy playing golf...
SANTA MONICA, California: Jurors ordered O.J. Simpson to pay $25 million in punitive damages, $12.5 million each to the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Coupled with the $8.5 million in compensatory damages awarded Tuesday, the decision pushes Simpson's potential financial obligation to a whopping $33.5 million. That's significantly more than the $15.7 million the plaintiffs had asked for, and left Simpson lawyers swearing that there was no way their client could ever pay up. Whether or not he does will first depend on Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki, who has 110 days to approve or reduce...