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Last week, in an unusual procedure, Federal Judge Robert Takasugi asked some 177 potential jurors to fill out a 42-page questionnaire. The 110 wide-ranging questions include: "Have you or has any member of your family or any acquaintance ever owned a De Lorean gull-winged sports car?" "Have you or any member of your family used cocaine?" "Do you object to the Government being involved in 'sting' undercover operations, where the Government takes the role of supplying drugs to the person who wants to buy them...
...word. "If any of you want to know if this is a publicity gimmick, yes, it is," he told reporters, "and thank God you all fell for it." Then, wearing a LARRY FLYNT FOR PRESIDENT shirt, the raunchy, paunchy publisher of Hustler magazine was taken before Judge Robert Takasugi. The judge had ordered Flynt to surrender an audio tape that Flynt said was a recording of former Auto Magnate John Z. De Lorean being coerced by federal agents into participating in the $24 million cocaine deal that ended with his arrest. In court, Flynt stuck to his story that...
...naturally upset at the premature presentation of evidence that would have been hard enough to deal with during the trial. The lawyer had tried to prevent the broadcast after he learned from CBS that it had the tapes. Weitzman raced into the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Robert Takasugi, who will preside over the trial, and demanded a temporary restraining order. Judge Takasugi quickly complied. But an appeals court just as quickly struck down his order. After CBS aired the tapes, Takasugi denounced the network for "interference" in the judicial process, lamenting that the TV reporters had not taken "moral...