Hapless, in love with fame, good-natured, but an inept manager, enjoying status and press attention, affable but ultimately incompetent and clueless.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Simpson/Ito.htm"Appointed by California's governor to the bench in 1989, Ito was seen as a wise political choice, inpart because of his Asian heriatge. Later, however, Ito was widely criticized as a poor courtroom manager, allowing far too many side-bars, stalls and delay tactics to exist in his court.
Ito seemed to enjoy press attention. Ito often invited celebrities into his chambers for a visit, and even once privately told Larry King, of CNN's Larry King Live, how he was going to rule on the his decision regarding the admissibility of Simpson's prior domestice violence evidence. Fortunately, King kept the disclosure to himself at the time. At the request of a friend, Ito even gave a controversial interview during the trial."