re: The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story series long thread

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One question I have is why in the hell didn't the prosecution object to Lee Baily's racial accusations that really had nothing to do with the evidence or anything else about the case? Why couldn't they get Ito to squash the race card and focus on the evidence at hand?

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It's a lose/lose either way. If they object, then it basically confirms he's racist in the eyes of the jury. If Baily can't prove any further that Furhman is lying, then they may get off.

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Or the people who gave a frick that Marcia Clark was topless at a beach.

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You know what the worst part about the nude photo shenanigans is?

It wasn't even her first ex-husband, Gabby Horowitz, that sold those photos.

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Horowitz was a professional backgammon player, according to The Washington Post, and the couple met with Clark was just 18 years old at UCLA. According to The National Enquirer, in 1989, Horowitz was accidentally shot in the head by a friend, which resulted in him becoming wheelchair-bound and unable to speak.

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Her ex-mother-in-law sold them!!!

And even weirder? The attorney who represented the man who shot her first husband?

Robert fricking Shapiro.

And the guy was never charged with anything.

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One thing that seems to be omitted from the show is that Fuhrman had used the N word and made disparaging racial remarks in taped interviews years before the trial.

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I think that's coming.

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The Real World was actually the beginning of reality TV back in the early 90's but this trial threw it into overdrive.

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This is true, but back I'm not sure how many people knew what Real World was or what it was really doing. And back then no one thought you could become a true "star" or "celebrity" for being on TV and not acting. This trial turned dozens of regular people into household names.

I watched the episode last night. Assuming it to be factual, Marsha Clark was certainly going through a rough time. I don't know how she held up with all that crap going on.

Ito is so much worse than I remembered.

That Rosa Lopez testimony was absurd. Hard to believe Ito disrupted the prosecution's case for that.

IRL, she somehow spent three days on the stand, all without the jury present. Her testimony was video recorded and then never offered at trial. She was cross examined by Darden, contrary to what was in the show.

So, the jury wound up sequestered for over a week, in the middle of the prosecution's case, for a defense witness to give testimony that was never used. Ito got played.

This show reminded me how much of a circus this whole trial was.

How was that hair style an improvement? I liked how she walked in like she was a big shot thinking she looked good.

I am extremely surprised how engrossed I am in this miniseries. It's riveting. I was 11 during this trial and only remember the bronco chase (being mad they cut into the NBA Finals), clips and interviews on Hard Copy that my mom used to watch while making dinner & how every single magazine cover was dedicated to this trial for a year.

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Why did they allow cameras into the court room in the first place? So much of what they did was an attempt to influence public opinion.

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Because of Judge Lance Ito, indisputably the single worst judge in American history. Judge Ito didn't give a damn about justice, all he wanted was fame. He consciously decided to escalate the trial as much as possible for his own personal gain. He even invited Marcia Clark into his office one day in order to show her this sketch from the Tonight Show: LINK

Say what you will about Clark and Darden, but they at least had the dignity to step down after that abortion of a trial. And these two went through absolute hell, maybe even becoming the 2 most persecuted prosecutors in American history. I do not envy their position.

Judge Ito though just thrived in it and didn't give a frick. He could have greatly downgraded the trial and made it 3 months tops. Instead he let the defense do anything their heart desired simply for ratings and let the trial go on for nearly a year. And then when OJ got off, he somehow had the balls to go onto preside over 500 more trials until retiring last year. He should have immediately had his license to practice law permanently revoked after that farce of a trial. Better yet he should have been tarred and feathered for it.

Do you really not think that every defense attorney who heard that Ito was going to preside over their case didn't just howl with laughter? Or every prosecutor thought that they were fricked due to how incompetent the man was? There's no way that this man wasn't openly mocked for almost every trial he presided over since then.

But Ito clearly has no shame. Any owner of a business in LA should have refused to serve him for what he did. Judge Lance Ito is largely responsible for the state of the media these days, and why we have a media of instant gratification. He really ruined America as a whole. That is why he is the worst judge in American history and should still be shunned to this day, especially due to the fact he didn't immediately step down.