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- <title>
- Feb. 08, 1993: The Trial This Time
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- NATION, Page 17
- The Trial This Time
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>U.S. prosecutors add some muscle to Rodney King's civil rights
- case
- </p>
- <p> The last trial of four Los Angeles policemen unleashed the
- worst riots in modern American history. The jury's acquittal of
- all but one for the beating of black motorist Rodney King
- seemed so at odds with a highly publicized home video that the
- city exploded in protest. This time, as pretrial maneuvering
- ended for the long-awaited civil rights version of the same
- case, scheduled to begin this week, federal attorneys have
- tightened their arguments. The prosecution will call civilian
- eyewitnesses, who have told a grand jury that King did not
- attack his tormentors, as well as an L.A.P.D. use-of-force
- expert who testified that the kicks and blows to King were
- violations of department policy. A transcript has surfaced
- quoting police- and fire-department dispatchers as they
- sarcastically imply that King was being punished because he led
- the cops on a high-speed chase. Another difference: this time
- U.S. District Judge John G. Davies has reversed an earlier
- ruling that King's civil rights were violated only if
- prosecutors prove that he was bloodied for racial reasons.
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- </body>
- </article>
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