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Lance Ito (Lance Allan Ito) was born on 2 August, 1950 in Los Angeles, California, U.S., is an American judge (born 1950). Discover Lance Ito's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

Popular As Lance Allan Ito
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Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 2 August 1950
Birthday 2 August
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Margaret York (m. 1981-2021)

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1950

Lance Allan Ito (born August 2, 1950) is an American retired judge, best known for presiding over the criminal trial for the O. J. Simpson murder case, held in the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1995.

Ito was born in Los Angeles to Jim Ito and Toshi Ito.

Both his parents were kept in internment camps for Japanese Americans with their families during the Second World War.

Ito was enrolled in Sunday School at the Mount Hollywood Congregational Church.

1968

Ito attended John Marshall High School, where he was student body president and received the Scholar Athlete award in 1968.

1972

He earned his bachelor's degree with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972, and his J.D. degree from the then University of California, Berkeley, Boalt School of Law in 1975.

1977

He then joined the Los Angeles district attorney's office in 1977, working in the hardcore gang unit and the organized crime and terror unit, among others.

1981

In 1981, he married Margaret Ann York, the first woman to attain the rank of Deputy Chief in the Los Angeles Police Department and that department's highest ranking woman officer when she retired in 2002.

The two met while at an Eagle Rock murder scene.

1987

Republican Governor George Deukmejian appointed Ito to the Municipal Court in 1987, and then elevated him to Superior Court in 1989.

1988

Simpson's defense team unearthed tapes in which Fuhrman had used racial epithets as recently as 1988, and they wished to introduce them as evidence to prove that Fuhrman had perjured himself, in order to discredit his testimony.

However, in the tapes, Fuhrman disparages York's appearance and suggests that she used her gender to advance in the police force.

The prosecution requested that Ito step down because they felt that derogatory remarks toward his wife might bias Ito against Fuhrman, though prosecutors later withdrew the request out of fear that it would result in a mistrial.

Ito declined to give interviews regarding the Simpson murder trial because ethical guidelines for California trial-court judges forbid commenting on pending matters or matters likely to come before the courts.

He has noted his disbelief that public interest in the trial extended through the turgid DNA section of the trial.

He has used his status to work on issues of judicial reform, such as increasing the number of interpreters and enforcing rules for foreign-national defendants in the court.

1991

In a high-profile case in 1991, Ito determined that Soon Ja Du, a convenience store owner who had shot and killed Latasha Harlins, was not a flight risk, denying the deputy district attorney's request to revoke Du's bail.

1992

In 1992, he initially handled the indictment against Lyle and Erik Menéndez, two brothers who were accused and later convicted of murdering their parents.

In 1992, Ito presided over the trial of financier Charles H. Keating Jr. Keating's ensuing ten-year sentence was later overturned on appeal because Ito had neglected to instruct the jury to determine whether Keating intended to defraud investors.

It was the prosecution's position that Keating was liable as a matter of strict liability.

1995

Ito presided over the 1995 murder trial of O. J. Simpson, at which Simpson was acquitted.

His decision to allow television coverage of the trial was controversial, and Ito faced criticism for seeming to enjoy the press and for allowing too many sidebars and recesses.

During the trial, the prosecution requested that Ito recuse himself when it came to light that his wife, Margaret York, had been detective Mark Fuhrman's superior officer in the past.

Fuhrman had been called to testify by the prosecution regarding his discovery of evidence in the case.

During cross-examination, Fuhrman claimed that he had not used racial epithets to refer to African-Americans during the last ten years.

2012

Los Angeles County announced in April 2012 that Ito's courtroom, along with 55 others, would be closed due to budget cuts.

2015

Ito retired in 2015.