Quotes by Lance Ito

About Lance Ito:

Lance Allan Ito is an American former Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for presiding over the O.J. Simpson murder trial. He heard felony criminal cases at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles.

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Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

Lance Ito

The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

Lance Ito

If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

Lance Ito

I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

Lance Ito

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

Lance Ito

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

Lance Ito

I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate ...

Lance Ito

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

Lance Ito

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value the...

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Author Bio

NameLance Ito
DescriptionAmerican judge
BornAugust 2, 1950
CountryUnited States Of America
ProfessionLawyer