#prosecutor ito

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All-Seeing Red

Silly little drawing of a dystopian Prosecutor Ito in a dystopian hellscape. And for onCE HE HAS HIS EYES OPEN YEEEEE

Another favorite battle network character of mine, next to Raika

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[FANART] Remembering my Deleted Friend

Another WIP finished, this one started on 2022, but finished this year.

I made a Prosecutor Ito alternative outfit that made him look more formal goth or at least edgy. I think this was originally vent art?

I wanted to originally draw just Prosecutor Ito with a background, but due to lack of ideas, I came up with another idea that was the reason why this drawing took time to be finished.

I drew JudgeMan.EXE from an uncommon angle, just as a memory. A static memory... But drawing JudgeMan.EXE at that angle and with limited references was a STRUGGLE. But eventually I had to finish it.

Hope you like it! >Elec_

Made in: CLIP

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I'M SO HAPPY I FOUND A FANFIC WITH PROSECUTOR ITO, VIC AND YUIKA!!

And with the ship of Vic x Ito! (Cloudy Justice!)

AND is a Purge AU! I'm so curious to read the writer's idea for the Purge in the MMBN world.

I'm so happy to find and read this fanfic. At the moment of this post, it's currently in Chapter 2. I'll be patiently wait for the next chapters!

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Why is Japan redefining rape? (Tessa Wong & Sakiko Shiraishi, BBC News, June 07 2023)

"The Japanese parliament is now debating a landmark bill to reform the country's sexual assault laws, only the second such revision in a century.

The bill covers a number of changes, but the biggest and most significant one will see lawmakers redefine rape from "forcible sexual intercourse" to "non-consensual sexual intercourse" - effectively making legal room for consent in a society where the concept is still poorly understood.

Current Japanese law defines rape as sexual intercourse or indecent acts committed "forcibly" and "through assault or intimidation", or by taking advantage of a person's "unconscious state or inability to resist".

This is at odds with many other countries which define it more broadly as any non-consensual intercourse or sexual act - where no means no.

Activists argue that Japan's narrow definition has led to even narrower interpretations of the law by prosecutors and judges, setting an impossibly high bar for justice and fostering a culture of scepticism that deters survivors from reporting their attacks.

In a 2014 Tokyo case, for instance, a man had pinned a 15-year-old girl to a wall and had sex with her while she resisted.

He was acquitted of rape as the court ruled his actions did not make it "extremely difficult" for her to resist.

The teenager was treated as an adult because the age of consent in Japan is only 13 years - the lowest among the world's richest democracies. (…)

As part of the redefinition of rape, the new law explicitly sets out eight scenarios where it is difficult for the victim to "form, express, or fulfil an intention not to consent".

They include situations where the victim is intoxicated with alcohol or drugs; or subject to violence or threats; or is "frightened or astonished".

Another scenario appears to describe an abuse of power, where the victim is "worried" they would face disadvantages if they do not comply.

The age of consent will also rise to 16 years, and the statute of limitations will be extended. (…)

But the reforms address only one part of the problem, say activists, whose call for change stretches well beyond the courtroom.

Sexual assault is still a taboo subject in Japan and has gained national attention only in recent years in the wake of high-profile cases such as Shiori Ito's court battle, former member of the Self Defence Force and sexual assault survivor Rina Gonoi's public statements, and the Johnny Kitagawa expose.

Part of the problem, Kazuko Ito says, is that generations of Japanese have grown up with "a distorted idea of sex and sexual consent".

On the one hand, sex education is usually taught in a veiled and modest way, and consent is hardly touched upon.

And yet, Ms Ito says, Japanese children have easy access to porn where an all too common trope is of a woman enjoying having sex against her will."

[justforbooks]

On the American football field, OJ Simpson ran around, past and through defenders with almost unmatched success. “The Juice” had legendary status, as both a collegian and a pro.

Undeniably handsome and charismatic, he appeared in films and on TV, and was known in the US for a Hertz television commercial in which he sprinted through an airport, hurdling all obstacles.

But the most enduring memory of Simpson, who has died aged 76 of cancer, will be a race he did not win, the slow-motion chase on 17 June 1994 during which he was a passenger in a white Ford Bronco, armed with a gun and threatening to kill himself, followed through empty Los Angeles freeways by a small fleet of police cars and swarming television helicopters broadcasting live to the world.

Simpson had agreed to surrender to authorities and be charged with the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, who had been found stabbed to death five days earlier outside her home in LA. Instead, he ran. The huge audience drawn by the Bronco chase would soon be dwarfed by the worldwide attention given to the trial. Coinciding with the rise of the 24-hour news cycle and specialist television channels such as Court-TV, it became a three-ring circus for electronic tabloid celebrity journalism.

The ringmaster was Judge Lance Ito, preening for the cameras, starstruck and deferential to Simpson’s “dream team” of big-name lawyers. They included national figures such as Melvin Belli, Alan Dershowitz and Robert Shapiro, but the dominant presence was the flamboyant local lawyer Johnnie Cochran, who had built his reputation filing suits against the Los Angeles police department.

Just as important may have been Simpson’s friend and former personal lawyer Robert Kardashian. After the murders, Simpson stayed at Kardashian’s house; when police arrived, Kardashian carried away a garment bag and some have speculated that it contained evidence of Simpson’s guilt. By returning to practise law as part of Simpson’s defence team, Kardashian was shielded against having to testify as to the contents of the luggage.

The trial lasted more than eight months, with Simpson’s team burying the prosecutors Marcia Clark and Chris Darden under a landslide of discovery (supplying and requesting vast quantities of material) and challenges to every piece of evidence.

Even Simpson’s cell-phone conversations during the Bronco chase, heard around the world, were ruled inadmissible. Clark’s decision to focus on Simpson’s 1989 charge of domestic abuse against his former wife backfired when the trial turned on the testimony of an LAPD detective, Mark Fuhrman, whose reliability was called into question when he was found to have lied about having used the N-word. This allowed the defence to recast the trial as a referendum on racism, positing that Simpson had been framed because he was black.

The climax came when Simpson tried on a glove, found at the crime scene, that was a key piece of evidence. Ignoring that it had been blood-soaked and repeatedly frozen and thawed, Cochrane seized upon Simpson’s inability to squeeze his hand into the glove. Incanting “If it does not fit, you must acquit”, he had found the visual metaphor to proclaim his client’s innocence. The jury took less than four hours to find Simpson not guilty, although Ito postponed the announcement until the next day to get maximum television exposure.

It seemed that all of the US, and much of the world, watched the verdict. Reaction was divided on racial lines: even sympathetic white people were convinced of his guilt, black people were sure he had been framed. Simpson announced publicly he would not rest until the “real killer” was brought to justice.

Within a year, Kardashian was publicly voicing his “doubt” about his friend’s innocence, while the Goldman and Brown families filed a wrongful death suit in civil court. With new evidence, and a lesser burden of proof than in criminal trials, Simpson was found guilty, and ordered to pay $33.5m in damages.

Born Orenthal James in San Francisco, he developed rickets and wore leg braces until he was five years old, by which point his parents, Eunice (nee Durden), a hospital administrator, and Jimmy (James) Lee Simpson, a janitor and cook, had divorced. He was raised by his mother in the Potrero Hill projects, where he ran with a gang called the Persian Warriors. His father left the family when OJ was four. It was not until later in his childhood, when he went to visit Jimmy unannounced, that he discovered his father was gay. Jimmy performed as a drag queen in San Francisco and died in 1989.

OJ turned to sports at Galileo high school, becoming a star of football and track. By the time he had played his second year of football at San Francisco City College he was being hotly pursued by major universities keen on his talent as a running back. He chose the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

His rickets had left him bow-legged, which helped him make quick cuts (sudden changes of direction), and accelerate out of them. At 6ft 2in and 15st 2lb (96kg), he was powerful enough to knock tacklers over, and with a speed of 9.4sec over 100 yards, fast enough to outrun them. Indeed, soon after entering USC, he was part of a 4 x 110-yard relay team that set a world record of 38.6 seconds, which still stands, as the 440-yard distance was soon afterwards discontinued.

That autumn on the gridiron, he led the nation in rushing (running rather than passing or kicking), the highlight being a late 64-yard touchdown run to help USC defeat its arch-rival UCLA. In 1968, he won the Heisman trophy, awarded to the top college player, by the largest ever margin.

He was picked first in the NFL draft, by the lowly Buffalo Bills, but his transition to pro football was not smooth. The coach, John Rauch, believed in a downfield passing game, which did not suit Simpson. But when Lou Saban took over as coach in 1972, Simpson became the focus of the Bills’ offence. Saban believed in power running, and built a powerful young line to clear Simpson’s way. They became known as “the Electric Company”, because they “turned on the Juice”.

In 1973, Simpson became the first player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season, as the Bills made the playoffs. He was a first-team all-league pick (best in the league) every year between 1972 and 1976, but seven games into the 1977 season he suffered a severe knee injury. In the off-season, Buffalo sent him home, trading him to the 49ers. Simpson played two seasons in San Francisco, but after the knee surgery he was a shadow of his former self. He retired after the 1979 season, and returned to acting.

While still at USC Simpson had appeared in uncredited bit parts in TV series such as Dragnet, Ironside and It Takes a Thief; he received his first credit in 1969 on Medical Center. In 1974 he appeared in his first films, The Klansman and the disaster epic The Towering Inferno.

He had a profitable sideline in endorsements, and his series of Hertz car-rental ads ran from 1975. His career peaked in 1977, with a role in the first episode of the hit TV miniseries Roots, and a decent part in Capricorn One, a film about the faking of a landing on Mars. But his next film was ill-chosen – Michael Winner’s thriller Firepower (1979) was a bomb – and for the next few years most of his film work was done for his own production company.

In 1983 he joined the commentary team for ABC’s Monday Night Football, the highest profile sports programme in the US. Though he lasted for only three seasons, he moved on to a starring role in an early HBO comedy series, 1st and Ten, set in the world of pro football, which ran from 1986 until 1990. This tapping of comedy beneath his image led to his being cast as the incongruously named detective Nordberg in The Naked Gun (1988).

In that movie and two sequels, Simpson played the dull-witted slapstick foil to Leslie Nielsen, the butt of countless jokes playing on racial stereotypes and his sports celebrity.

At the time of the murders, Simpson had starred in the pilot film for a TV series, Frogmen, about an A-Team-like group of Navy Seals. Because of knife combat shown in the film, it was confiscated by the LAPD as evidence and has never been seen. His endorsement work dried up immediately, and, in the wake of the civil decision against him, he moved to Florida, where more of his assets, including his football pension, could be protected.

He did not participate in the 1995 TV movie The OJ Simpson Story, which starred Bobby Hosea, but more than 20 years later, two shows about the trial drew large audiences, showing the public fascination with the case: The People v OJ Simpson, a dramatisation starring Cuba Gooding Jr, and OJ: Made in America, a true crime documentary series.

In 2001 his house in Miami was raided by the FBI, searching for evidence of drug running and money laundering. Five years later it was announced that a book by Simpson, to be titled If I Did It, was to be published, with an accompanying special on Fox TV.

The book and programme were soon cancelled and, after lawsuits, a Florida bankruptcy court awarded the rights to the book to the Goldman family, who published it in 2007 with the “If” of the title in extremely small print, and added the subtitle Confessions of the Killer.

Simpson maintained some income from selling his autograph at sports memorabilia shows, although he had been legally stopped from copyrighting his name or nicknames for commercial benefit.

In September 2007 he and a group of friends burst into a hotel room in Las Vegas and retrieved from two dealers in sports memorabilia items that Simpson alleged had been stolen from him. He was arrested and charged with armed robbery and kidnapping. The following year he was found guilty, and sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison, one for each million dollars he owed the Brown and Goldman families. Amid reports of his failing health, Simpson was released on parole in 2017.

In 1967 Simpson had married Marguerite Whitley. They had two daughters, Arnelle and Aaren, and a son, Jason. Aaren drowned in the family swimming pool in 1979, the same year that the couple divorced. In 1985 he married Nicole Brown. They had a daughter, Sydney, and son, Justin, and divorced in 1992.

He is survived by his children and three grandchildren.

🔔 Orenthal James Simpson, footballer, actor and convicted criminal, born 9 July 1947; died 10 April 2024

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On the night of the murders, the bit actor was staying in the guest house of Simpson's Rockingham estate, testifying that he didn't know of Simpson's whereabouts that night, between 9:36 p.m. and 11:00 p.m., when prosecutors believe the murder occurred. The shaggy-haired Kaelin was declared a hostile witness during the trial because of his shifting description of Simpson's demeanor on the day of the murders.

Resnick received a $60,000 advance for the book "Nicole Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted" - published just four months after the death of Nicole. In it, she allegations of domestic violence.

She co-wrote the book with National Enquirer gossip writer Mike Walker, and the book ultimately made Resnick personal non grata for the trial, forcing Judge Lance Ito to halt jury selection to read the book and weigh its possible impact, and ultimately forcing the prosecution not to call Resnick to the witness stand - even though she could have testified to how O.J. had threatened Nicole's life.

The book is both tawdry and tragic in its timing and content. It's said to be a difficult book to read because as gossipy and unseemly as it appears, there is the sense that there's some truth to it. Resnick says she cries everytime she reads her book, because she sounds like a major airhead.

[doveriathegoddess]

I made some ocs for Killer Frequency because I’m obsessed so lemme introduce you to the Legal Team :D

To start things off we have Wendy Von Skenazy who is the Chief Prosecutor and has taken on the case of Henry Barrow and Teddy Gallows Jr in the aftermath of the events of the game. She is a no nonsense woman with a very strict demeanor and is very determined to put Henry and Teddy behind bars for their crimes. She travels down to Gallows Creek to take on the cases after being called by her cousin Trent Henson, who she owes a favor to...

Up next we have Natoma, who is Wendy’s assistant and a medium/seer with high incredible powers. She is a young woman who is eager to help out in anyway she can, and Wendy has brought her along to Gallows Creek to help her win her two cases with Natoma’s powers. Natoma has the ability to summon the dead, see spirits and other entities, and even allow herself to be possessed so that the dead can speak through her. Her abilities will prove to be useful when the day of the trail arrives...

Finally we have Trent Henson, Wendy’s cousin and an independent private investigator. He moved to Gallows Creek 5 years prior and secretly started looking Ito the case of George Barrows, having his suspicions that Teddy and his father were involved in covering up what happened. After all hell broke loose on Whistling Night, Trent believes that he has more than enough evidence to convict Henry Barrow and Teddy Gallows Jr but their defense attorneys are determined to make sure that the two don’t get any prison time. With no one else willing to prosecute the two criminals, Trent calls up his cousin Wendy to help put away Henry and Teddy for good...

I hope you guys like them :3

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The first poll I selected "Here to make number go up in my blorbo's tag", but I combine it with "I thought about blorbo and took 5d8 psychic damage, which is now YOUR problem"

My all-time blorbos are obscure ones, so I'll bring them love and you guys are gonna like it! (I'm the unofficial Prosecutor Ito ambassador. I'm joking with that title but I'm the Prosecutor Ito enjoyer, and I'll bring love to my cheerful doomer prosecutor. I'm also considering making fanfiction with Doctrine Dark. Just thinking for a good one)

Also I'll put the "This is the best fucking thing I have ever written, you can read it if you want". I don't tent to publish my ramblings and fanfics to the public. Only the ones who I find worthy for public attention.

About the second one, I selected the "The daydream I work on at night is getting really good you guys" one. I DAYDREAM I LOT AND I'LL BRING OUT THE GOOD ONES TO THE PUBLIC, AND YOU GUYS ARE GONNA LIKE IT!! (?

[thenewviewerdaily]

Federal prosecutor Lesley Wolf who led criminal probe into Hunter Biden is silenced by DOJ from sharing information with congressional investigators

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12892355/Lesley-WolHunter-Biden-investigation-prosecution-DOJ.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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Went through an old art book, found these

Yep, this is an old art book of mine. Back in my Lobotomy Corporation × Mega Man hyperfixation (I still enjoy both)

So, Lumine's final move in Mega Man X8 is called Paradise Lost. Coincidentally, WhiteNight's E.G.O Suit is also called Paradise Lost

This fit too well. Prosecutor Ito in Judgement Bird's E.G.O Suit? Too perfect.

Uh, IDK why I gave Volnutt the Happy Teddy Bear E.G.O, but... whatever

I've seen Aile appear in much more content than Vent, so Adoration E.G.O it is!

I'm still questioning why I gave Vent the Funeral of Dead Butterflies E.G.O Suit???

Giving Giro Silent Orchestra's E.G.O Suit makes way less sense now that I look back

Lmk if I should post some art I did for a *lot* of the songs on my Spotify

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[Jailed in Sharo] Ito in the prison uniform

I still have pending to do the fanfic "Jailed in Sharo". But I did have this sketch of Ito wearing my idea for the prison uniform for the Criminal Microdistrict where he has to reside for a time.

Yes. Those are inspired by actual uniforms. I did searched for references.

I'll make the actual fanfic eventually, I swear...

Hope you like it!

_Elec

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[iwillhaveamoonbase]

The Japanese justice system has recently been referred to as 'hostage justice' by Carlos Ghosn. Now, Ghosn might be guilty of what he's being accused of, but that he's a foreigner and is the only one who is being investigated for financial misconduct at Nissan is a little bit suspicious if you look at the case.

And there has been a lot of people coming out who have said that the police in Japan are legally allowed to keep people they are interrogating awake for more than 24 hours. It's an endless rotation of officers so that you never have a second to rest. They can hold you without charging you for 23 days. 23 days. The usual period is 10, but if a prosecutor asks for an extension and the judge approves it, it can go as long as 23. And before you ask, yes, it is suspected that the police are well aware that they are forcing false confessions.

SA is almost never investigated and I highly recommend watching interviews with Ito Shiori because she goes into how the police and society do not protect women. I'd also urge, with caution, to look into Flower Demo (Japan's version of Me, Too) and it's origins, but it's very hard to stomach the case that started it, so be warned that it could be triggering for some. And the small amount of female police officers means it's very hard to find a female officer to listen to the case instead of a man, which many women have said makes it so they don't report SA. It's been stated again and again to be vastly under reported.

There's also a thing called a 'honeypot' where police will take an empty car, leave it unlocked, and leave valuable things in the car and just wait until some tries to steal it. That is literally a thing that happens instead of investigating the cases that need to be investigated.

Real lawyer plays Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney

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Well, I did this meme about my comfort characters.

Especifically, how it feels trying to find content about my comfort characters. Not just official content, but also and most importantly, fanworks or fan content. Like fanarts, fanfics, etc.

Elec Man (Mega Man Classic): He's one of the most popular Robot Masters. He has a LOT of fanwork.

Remy (Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike): He's a polarizing character in the SF community, but he's gaining more attention and love these days. He has a good size of fanwork.

Doctrine Dark (Street Fighter EX series / Fighting EX Layer): He was originally going to be deep down with Ito, but he's gaining more fanwork. He's one of the most popular characters of the SFEX/FEXL. Not as popular as Skullo but he's popular. He has a small and decent size of fan content.

Prosecutor Ito / Satoru Roppo (Mega Man Battle Network 6 / Rockman.EXE 6): He has really... REALLY few content. There's a good size of Ito content on Pixiv, but I noticed there are deleted Ito content from there (That I found thanks to Tumblr posts). While in the English community, really few content. As well as, well. He's a Super UNDERRATED character. Hence why he's deep down on the meme. I had to dig down or "internet dumpster dive" a LOT in order to find content of him.

It sucks to be a Prosecutor Ito fan... ;-;

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Chapter 14

Inuwi ko si Apollo sa kanila na lasing na lasing. Walang mga tao.

"Nasan mga anak mo?"

"Pinapunta ko muna sa Lola nila at summer vacation din lang."

"Tapos ikaw itong lango sa alak? Apollo magpakatino ka nga!"

"Hmmm! Okay lang yan. Lika nga dito, pakiss mo."

Bigla nya akong hinila at pinaghahalik sa kama nilang mag-asawa. Akma na nya akong huhubaran pero pinigilan ko sya. Baka multuhin pa kami ng asawa niyang namayapa na.

"Apollo, you can't keep doing this okay?"

"Galit ka?"

"No, Basta."

We kissed bago ko siya Iwan.

Bumili ako ng Isa pang condo at lumipat. Mga ilang linggo, di ko sya kinakausap. Tapos nagpunta pala sya sa condo at hinanap ako.

"much better na huwag muna tayo magkita. Ayusin mo muna sarili mo."

"Ely naman! Pati ba naman ikaw mawawala sakin?"

"Hindi lang ako ang mawawala sayo kung di ka umayos."

"Kailangan kita."

"You only need me if you're sad and horny."

"Alam ko pero kelangan kita."

"Let's take a break muna."

Dinalaw Niya ako sa trabaho. Ayaw na ayaw ko ganun. Hindi ko pa rin sya kakausapin.

Lumipas Ang mga linggo. Three months na nakakaraan simula ng pagkasawi ni Lia.

Message sya ng message na nagtino na sya. na hindi na sya umiinom.

Nagkita lang kami for coffee sa hapon. "Subukan mo magpatherapy."

"Sus." Sinalungat nya ako.

"Ely, narealize ko. Mahal din talaga kita."

"Kamamatay lang ng asawa mo."

"Oo, mahal ko din sya. Minahal ko siya. Pero mas higit sayo."

"Why are you saying this?"

"Hindi ba napag-isipan natin to? Iiwan ko siya para sayo."

"Ikaw lang nakaisip non."

Hinawakan nya kamay ko. "Magsama na tayo."

"Apollo-- " I shook my head.

"I understand."

Nagkikita pa kami. Tuloy ang relasyon namin. Nagtherapy na sya at sa puntong ito, alam ng therapist ang tungkol sa amin. 30 na ako. Umakyat na biglang assistant prosecutor.

Lumipas ng isang taon, at bumuti buti na sya.

Habang hubo't hubad kami sa kama, nag-usap kami. 46 na sya.

"Dami nagtatanong sa akin if mag-asawa pa ba ako."

"Wag muna."

"Ikaw bahala."

"Mga ten years pa."

"Ang tagal naman!"

"Ayokong paratangan na kabit ano ba."

"Eh kung magpakasal muna tayo?"

"Ha? Na Tayo lang?

"Oo, gusto na kita asawahin. Alam mo yan. Di na kita pakakawalan. Akin ka lang. Para sakin ka lang."

He kissed me.

I got turned on by his words, so I rode him until I reached multiple orgasms.

Noong nag 2026 na at 3rd anniversary ng pagkamatay ni Lia, ipinaalam na ni Apollo ang relasyon namin. Pasinungaling namin na anim na buwan na kami. Wala namang reaksyon mula sa kanila. Nakilala naman nila ako at normal siguro pag lalake ang nabyudo ay maghahanap at maghahanap ng babaeng makakasama.

Ang dependent pa din kay Apollo ay si Jane na nasa med school, si Onic na nasa kolehiyo pa lang at syempre, si Prima na nasa elementary. Bumukod na din si Elio dahil may kasintahan na.

Una kaming nagpakilala sa ina niya, si Liza. Tinanggap naman nya ako ng buo. Tapos sa mga anak niya, paisa-isa and okay naman pakikitungo nila sa akin.

Nung 2027, nagdecide na kaming magpakasal kahit sa iba ay parang napakabilis. Ang katwiran ko matanda na rin lang kami, ayaw naming kumplikaduhin pa. Kinasal kami ng mayo. 48 na si Apollo at Ako 32. Nagpakasal kami sa juez. Hindi muna kami nagsama agad pero naghoneymoon kami ng 1 month sa Europa.

Pagbalik naman, dalawang major things ang nangyari. Buntis ulit ako at bumili kami ng sarili naming bahay.

Medyo may pagkadismaya kay Apollo na nagbubuntis ako.

"Matanda na ako masyado para magkababy."

"Expert ka na nga eh."

"Sabagay kung may sarili tayong anak na inalagaan, mas mainam Yun."

[boricuacherry-blog]

O.J. Simpson, famed football star and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his ex-wife and her friend but later was found liable in a separate civil trial, has died after battling prostate cancer.

With Simpson's old friend and teammate Al Cowlings at the wheel and the fugitive in the back holding a gun to his head and threatening suicide, the Bronco led a fleet of patrol cars and seven news helicopters on a slow 60-mile televised chase over the Southern California freeways.

As he rode in the Bronco, a friend, Robert Kardashian (yes, Kim Kardashian's dad), released a handwritten letter to the public that Mr. Simpson had reportedly left at home, expressing love for Ms. Simpson and denying that he killed her.

The trial lasted nine months, from January to early October 1995, and captivated the nation with its lurid accounts of the murders and the tactics and strategy of prosecutors and of a defense that included the "dream team" of Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., F. Lee Bailey, Robert Kardashian, Alan M. Dershowitz, Barry Scheck and Robert L. Shapiro. The prosecution, led by Marcia Clark and Christopher A. Darden, had what seemed to be overwhelming evidence: tests showing that blood, shoe prints, hair strands, shirt fibers, carpet threads and other items found at the murder scene had come from Mr. Simpson or his home, and DNA tests showing that the bloody glove found at Mr. Simpson's home matched the one left at the crime scene. Prosecutors also had a list of 62 incidents of abusive behavior by Mr. Simpson against his wife.

But as the trial unfolded before Judge Lance Ito and a 12-member jury that included 10 Black people, it became apparent that the police inquiry had been flawed. Photo evidence had been lost or mislabeled; DNA had been collected and stored improperly, raising a possibility that it was tainted. And Detective Mark Fuhrman, a key witness, admitted that he had entered the Simpson home and found the matching glove and other crucial evidence - all without a search warrant.

The defense argued, but never proved, that Mr. Fuhrman planted the second glove. More damaging, however, was its attack on his history of racist remarks. Mr. Fuhrman swore that he had not used racist language for a decade. But four witnesses and a taped radio interview played for the jury contradicted him and undermined his credibility. (After the trial, Fuhrman pleaded no contest to a perjury charge. He was the only person convicted in the case.)

In what was seen as the crucial blunder of the trial, the prosecution asked Mr. Simpson, who was not called to testify, to try on the gloves. He struggled to do so. They were apparently too small. This led Johnnie Cochran famously pleading to the jury during closing arguments, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."

Questions about his guilt or innocence never went away. In May 2008, Mike Gilbert, a memorabilia dealer and former crony, said in a book that Mr. Simpson, high on marijuana, had admitted the killings to him after the trial. Gilbert quoted Mr. Simpson as saying that he had used one that Ms. Simpson had in her hand when she opened the door. He also said that Mr. Simpson had stopped taking arthritis medicine to let his hands swell so that they would not fit the gloves in court. Mr. Simpson's lawyer, Yale L. Galanter, denied Gilbert's claims, calling him delusional.

"He died without penance," Cook said of Simpson. "We don't know what he has, where it is or who is in control. We will pick up where we are and keep going with it."

Simpson's rise to fame involved 11 NFL seasons, nine of them with the Buffalo Bills, who made him the no. 1 pick in the NFL draft in 1969. He became known as The Juice, the first running back to break the 2,000-yard rushing mark (doing it in 14 games) while averaging 141.3 yards per game, still an NFL record.

Hertz rentals shot up and the ads made O.J.'s face one of the most recognizable in America. The ads also opened Simpson up for more endorsements: sporting goods, soft drinks, and even razor blades.

"People identify with me," he told The Times. "People have told me I'm colorless. Everyone likes me. I stay out of politics, I don't try to save people for the Lord and, besides, I don't look that out of character in a suit."

Simpson made his big-screen debut in 1974 in "The Klansman," an exploitation film in which he starred alongside Lee Marvin and Richard Burton. The film was a flop, but Simpson would go on to appear in several dozen films and TV series, including 1974's "The Towering Inferno," 1976's "The Cassandra Crossing," 1977's "Roots" and 1977's "Capricorn One."

Most notable, perhaps, was his performance in 1988's "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad" and its two sequels. Simpson played Detective Nordberg in the slapstick films opposite Leslie Nielsen.

Simpson married his first wife, Marguerite Whitley, on June 24, 1967, moving her to Los Angeles the next day so he could begin preparing for his first season with USC - which, in large part because of Simpson, won that year's national championship. He had three children - Arnelle, Jason, and Aaren with his first wife. Their daughter Aaren, however, drowned as a toddler in a swimming pool accident in 1979, the same year he and Whitley divorced. He would go on to have two kids - Sydney and Justin - with Nicole.

In his football career, he broke college and professional records, and became an American idol. It was good on the surface, but beneath it, there was a deeper, more troubled reality - the infant daughter drowning in the family pool, a divorce from his high-school sweetheart, and a stormy marriage to a stunning young waitress and her frequent calls to the police when he beat her; about the jealous rages of a frustrated man.

The abuse left Nicole Simpson bruised and terrified on scores of occasions, but the police rarely took substantive action. After one call to the police on New Year's Day, 1989, officers found her badly beaten and half-naked, hiding in the bushes outside their home. "He's going to kill me!" she sobbed. "He gets a very animalistic look in him," Sgt. Craig Lally recalled. "All his veins pop out, his eyes are black and just black, I mean cold, like an animal. I mean very, very weird."

Mr. Simpson was arrested and convicted of spousal abuse, but was let off with a fine and probation.

And to add insult to injury, he was reportedly cheating during the marriage - during her pregnancy. Ms. Simpson discovered his trysts in a shocking way. While rummaging through her bedroom just before her birthday, she found a jewelry box in his bureau. She opened it and gasped at a set of dazzling earrings, worth at least $25,000. She thought they were for her. So she put them back and said nothing. But her birthday came and went - without the diamonds. She then mentioned the mystery to one of Mr. Simpson's golfing buddies. Stunned, the woman whispered: "Don't you know? He gave them to Tawny Kitaen. We thought you allowed him to have a mistress!"

The couple divorced in 1992, but confrontations continued. On October 25, 1993, Ms. Simpson called the police again. "He's back," she told a 911 operator, and officers once more intervened.

Then it happened.

Ron Goldman was a waiter, like Nicole. Instead, he told friends his real dream was to open a bar or restaurant in the Brentwood area. He shared his vision that it not be known by a name, but by the ankh, an Egyptian symbol of life. He wanted to learn all facets of the restaurant-bar business, and gregarious and social as he was, everyone felt he would succeed. He had even expressed aspirations to act, after appearing as a contestant on the short-lived game show Studs in 1992. And though sometimes promoting for clubs, he rarely drank. Still, there was something alluring about the nightlife.

It was in a club that he met ex-girlfriend Jacqui Bell, but, she said, "He wanted a commitment, and I'm not very good with commitments." Their relationship was marked by sporadic separations. Once, when Bell left for St. Louis, Goldman flew there to pursue her to return to their Brentwood home. "For a guy who doesn't have a car or a dime, it was wonderful," she reflected. But it was not to be. She still has the Belgian sheep dog he gave her, named Audrey. "It's the only thing I have left of him. He was a very sweet, honest faithful guy. Maybe if I'd given him the commitment he wanted he'd still be here," she said, her voice filling with anguish. A friend remembered how he envied the quiet times he had with his girlfriend. "He would say...'I really miss that - having someone to talk to, you don't have to go out, you can avoid all the craziness out there."

Nicole had met Goldman six weeks prior when he borrowed her Ferrari, and since then the two had become increasingly friendly, meeting for coffee and dinner on occasion. That day, he had after-work plans with his bartender friend, but before finishing work, the restaurant got a call from Nicole - a pair of glasses had been left behind. He punched out, then left to return them to her. That day he met with her, though, would be the last.

On June 12, 1994, Ms. Simpson, 35, and Mr. Goldman, 25, were attacked outside her condominium in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, not far from Mr. Simpson's estate. She was nearly decapitated, and Mr. Goldman was slashed to death.

The knife was never found, but the police discovered a bloody glove at the scene and abundant hair, blood and fiber clues. Aware of Mr. Simpson's earlier abuse and her calls for help, investigators believed from the start that Mr. Simpson, 46, was the killer. They found blood on his car and, in his home, a bloody glove that matched the one picked up near the bodies. There was never any other suspect.

Five days later, after Mr. Simpson attended Nicole's funeral with their two children, before being charged with the murders.

In his later civil trial, a letter Ms. Simpson wrote was revealed, in which she wrote he "beat the holy hell out of her" and that the injuries she sustained were serious enough to require hospitalization. She stated that she and her then-husband "lied at the X-ray lab and said I fell off a bike."

Although the Goldmans were awarded millions of dollars in their 1997 civil suit, as late as 2022, Fred Goldman says Simpson still hasn't paid a dime.