...it's not going to be another O.J. Simpson courtroom. The judge doesn't want to be known as another Judge Ito." Lance Ito was widely accused of losing control of the courtroom and letting opposing attorneys posture and declaim for the cameras...

...the bull's eye was hung on the wrong person. The author states that Judge Thomas Cooper Jr. is likened to Judge Lance Ito of O.J. Simpson fame by "indulging the defense to the point that he is losing control of his courtroom." Having...

...So he resigned. Well, good riddance. The public had cause to criticize. Rizgar was to Saddam's trial what Judge Lance Ito was to O.J. Simpson's. He let the defense, composed of Saddam and seven other former members of the regime, take...