Ito started his career in 1977 by working at the Los Angeles district attorney's office and worked on organized crime and gang cases. He rose up the ranks through the years and started working at the Superior Court in 1989. After the O.J. Simpson trial, Judge Ito has kept a low profile and presided over hundreds of cases. In 2012, Los Angeles County made budget cuts and closed down more than 50 courtrooms, including Judge Ito's, per Networth Height Salary, and he eventually retired in 2015. Not much is known about what the judge has been up to since his retirement, but his name has popped up several times in the media in the past years.
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Whatever Happened To The Stars Of The O.J. Simpson Trial?
During his "trial of the century," Simpson hired the best of the best lawyers money could buy, earning his defense the nickname "The Dream Team," and more than a hundred witnesses testified for the defense and the prosecution combined, says Los Angeles Times. Some of them would emerge as stars.
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Cochran is an important figure in the African American and social justice community. His work and leadership have had a lasting legacy almost two decades after his death, and in today's America, with the death of George Floyd and the nationwide protest in the summer of 2020, one wonders what Johnnie Cochran's role would be in the national conversation. Here is the untold truth of Johnnie Cochran.
As the entire trial was broadcast nationally, and available internationally, the defense team and the prosecutors faced intense scrutiny for their performance during the trial. However, the scrutiny was not limited to their legal arguments. The media and viewers also criticized the attorneys for their physical appearance, including their clothing, hairstyles, and makeup.
Robert Shapiro's name will likely not be forgotten by anyone who was paying attention to the news during the mid-1990s. The LA-based attorney was part of the "Dream Team" of criminal defenders that accused murderer O.J. Simpson put together. Under the leadership of the late Johnnie Cochran, the all-star attorneys included Shapiro, Robert Kardashian, Alan Dershowitz, Barry Sheck, F. Lee Bailey, and six others, whose collective efforts garnered an acquittal for Simpson in what has been widely regarded as "the trial of the century" (per CBS News).
During his "trial of the century" (via Britannica), Simpson hired the best of the best lawyers money could buy, earning his defense the nickname "The Dream Team" (Biography). More than a hundred witnesses testified for the defense and the prosecution combined, says Los Angeles Times. One of them would emerge as a star. His name was Kato Kaelin — a blond-haired friend of the Simpsons' and a witness for the prosecution.
According to the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Bailey had made his name as an attorney over a three-decade-long career before joining Simpson's defense team, and, as quickly became apparent, he was something of an attention seeker. Bailey became the public face of the Simpson camp by hosting numerous televised press conferences in which he addressed the latest minutia of the case as it developed. He also became something of a pop culture figure for his successful cross-examination of police officer Mark Fuhrman, before which he told the press: "Any lawyer in his right mind who would not be looking forward to cross-examining Mark Fuhrman is an idiot."
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