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Lance Allan Ito (born August 2, 1950) is an American retired judge, best known for presiding over the criminal trial for the O. J. Simpson murder case, held in the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1995.
The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson was a criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which former NFL player and actor O. J. Simpson was tried and acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, who were stabbed to death outside Brown's condominium in Los Angeles on June 12, 1994. The trial spanned eight ...
Judge Lance Ito Judge Lance Ito made several important decisions concerning the DNA section of the trial. First, he allowed the defense to argue that some of the evidence was planted despite producing no evidence that it was. [citation needed] Next, he ruled that the prosecution must reserve at least 10% of the DNA samples for the defense to test themselves. The prosecution actually preserved ...
Fuhrman felt that Judge Lance Ito allowed the defense to control the trial. For instance, like Bugliosi, Fuhrman insists that relevant case law demanded that Ito foreclose the defense from asking him about racial slurs, since any potential relevance was outweighed by the prospect of prejudice against the prosecution's case.
The proceedings also made celebrities out of Judge Lance Ito, prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden, and witness Kato Kaelin.
Judge Lance Ito was criticized by Marcia Clark, [146] Christopher Darden, [37] Vincent Bugliosi, [57] Daniel Petrocelli, [147] Darnel Hunt, [11] and Jeffrey Toobin [39] for his alleged poor stewardship of the trial. The criticism focused on allegations that he failed to control the court room and was unduly influenced by the media.
In 1981 York and Judge Lance Ito married. [5] During the O. J. Simpson murder case trial, over which Judge Ito presided, a key witness in the trial was Mark Fuhrman, a police officer who once was a subordinate of York's.
Main Sterling K. Brown as Christopher Darden Kenneth Choi as Judge Lance Ito Christian Clemenson as William Hodgman Cuba Gooding Jr. as O. J. Simpson Bruce Greenwood as Gil Garcetti Nathan Lane as F. Lee Bailey Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clark David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian John Travolta as Robert Shapiro Courtney B. Vance as Johnnie Cochran