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...first indication that something was amiss came Thursday, when Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki called two jurors into chambers to question them about letters sent to them by Brenda Moran and Gina Rhodes Rossborough, two jurors in the Simpson criminal trial. The letters offered moral support and touted the services of a particular media agent. Fujisaki immediately launched an investigation into the matter, since it is illegal to attempt to contact jurors. A team of Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies armed with a search warrant confiscated Moran's computer and files from her home. Moran admitted that she wrote part...
...next day, after a 90-minute hearing closed to the press, Fujisaki dismissed the panel's only African-American juror, Rosemary Caraway, 62, a retired telephone-company dispatcher, over the objections of the lawyers representing the families of Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. The court had learned that the woman had failed to disclose that her daughter worked as a secretary in the office of Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti, who prosecuted Simpson in the criminal case...
Simpson lawyer Robert Baker moved for a mistrial, which was denied. Plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli asked Fujisaki to sequester the jury for the remainder of their deliberations, citing the likelihood of further interference from aggressive tabloid reporters and book agents, several of whom quickly offered five-figure sums to the dismissed juror for an interview. Fujisaki declined, although he did revoke the courtroom pass of a Los Angeles TV station whose camera crew attempted to follow the jurors' van from the courthouse. He ordered the jurors to avoid all radio, television and newspapers until they reached a verdict...
...potential out of the equation, Simpson lawyers Wednesday fought to prevent testimony estimating the long-term market value (if any) of Simpson's name and image by celebrity marketer Mark Roessler. Punitive damages generally have been limited to about $200,000 in California. Simpson?s attorneys may argue that Fujisaki allowed improper evidence and weakened their case by not letting them call former detective Mark Fuhrman, who played a crucial role in the criminal case and may have raised doubts in the jury?s mind about the reliability of the evidence. Former Simpson counsel Alan Dershowitz charges that the whole...
...clear. Unlike the criminal trial, which required a unanimous decision, only 9 of the 12 civil jurors had to agree on a decision against Simpson. But what swayed all of the jurors to go him remains unclear as a gag order was placed on the trial until Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki makes a ruling on whether Simpson should pay additional punitive damages on top of the $8.5 million. The punitive stage of the trial is tentatively slated for Thursday. Louis and Juditha Brown, the parents of Nicole Brown Simpson, do not stand to collect damages since they did not bring...