Judge Lance A. Ito presided over the Simpson criminal trial from Department 103, appearing in the record across 167 distinct trial days that included motions, witness examinations, jury instructions, and the verdict. He addressed disputes over domestic-violence evidence, DNA evidence handling and chain of custody, and discovery; on April 14, he found that an initial failure to produce an original document page was inadvertent but that the prosecution's later decision not to disclose it before redirect was intentional and improper. An in-camera conference later considered whether Detective Fuhrman's recorded racial slurs and derogatory statements about Ito's wife, Captain York, created a potential disqualifying conflict.