Criminal
Nov. 21, 2000
Unsilencing the Code
Los Angeles jurors no longer assume that all police officers walk the straight line.
What a difference a decade makes! In April 1992, a Simi Valley jury refused to convict four Los Angeles Police Department officers for beating motorist Rodney King, even though their actions had been caught on videotape. Less than 10 years later, a Los Angeles jury has returned guilty verdicts against three former Rampart Division LAPD officer...
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