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- <text id=92TT2661>
- <title>
- Nov. 30, 1992: Serving Justice a Blow
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Nov. 30, 1992 Windsor: A House Dividing
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- SOCIETY, Page 23
- Serving Justice a Blow
- </hdr><body>
- <p>Who leaked the prosecutors' battle plan for the trial of the
- L.A. cops?
- </p>
- <p> Appealing for calm during last May's Los Angeles riots,
- President Bush promised that "justice will be served" in the
- cases of four L.A. policemen acquitted of most charges in the
- beating of Rodney King. Subsequently the Justice Department
- filed federal civil rights charges against the L.A. cops.
- </p>
- <p> Now Justice officials admit their case has been dealt a
- serious blow, possibly by someone in their own ranks. A document
- laying out the prosecution's strategy -- including a discussion
- of weaknesses in the government case -- was sent to a defense
- lawyer.
- </p>
- <p> The disclosure may have been an accident, but Justice has
- launched a criminal inquiry. Prosecutors insist their cause is
- not lost and continue to prepare for the trial, set for February
- 1993.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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