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It’s widely accepted that the media circus surrounding the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson in Los Angeles intensified when Judge Lance Ito allowed the case to be televised. The conventional wisdom is that the resulting “ observer effect ,” in which the outcome of an event is changed by the fact that it was observed, affected the judge, the attorneys, and the jury. But that apparently won’t be ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Judge Lance Ito's fame has ironically made his courtroom the most difficult to find in downtown Los Angeles. Since presiding over O.J. Simpson's murder trial more than a decade ago, Ito has repeatedly had his name placard stolen from the door of his ninth-floor criminal courtroom.
The Buffalo Bills used to have the Electric Company because they turned on the Juice, O.J. Simpson. The Washington Redskins once had the Hogs. In the 1920s and '30s, Fordham had the Seven Blocks of Granite. Often it takes a catchy nickname to get an offensive...
