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- THE WEEKSOCIETY, Page 23Serving Justice a Blow
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- Who leaked the prosecutors' battle plan for the trial of the
- L.A. cops?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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