Rothwax is angry.
Neufeld is a wanted man.
No delays allowed.
11/28/94
New York Judge Harold Rothwax feuds with Judge Lance Ito in Los Angeles over one of Simpson’s many defense attorneys, Peter Neufeld, who has a case before Rothwax and is due in both judges’ courts on the same day. Thus ensued a cross-country judicial tug-of-war. It was only well after this event that it occurred to me that the judges might have been in cahoots with each other to teach a lesson to an over-confident and overly arrogant lawyer who had knowingly double-booked himself at trials on opposite coasts.
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