Deitz offers a scathing indictment of how the federal government was able to obtain convictions of Sgt. Stacey Koon and Officer Laurence Powell for violating Rodney King's civil rights in 1991 and explores the double-jeopardy questions and other legal issues raised by the incident.
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Deitz offers a scathing indictment of how the federal government was able to obtain convictions of Sgt. Stacey Koon and Officer Laurence Powell for violating Rodney King's civil rights in 1991 and explores the double-jeopardy questions and other legal issues raised by the incident.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Very Good Condition in Very Good jacket. The book appears new and unused but has very slight shelf wear to the Dust Jacket. Quantity Available: 1. ISBN: 0895264579. ISBN/EAN: 9780895264572. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1560755549.
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Like New. In excellent condition, never read. From Publishers Weekly: Dietz, who wrote Presumed Guilty: The Tragedy of the Rodney King Affair, with L.A. policeman Stacey Koon, has written a strong brief for Koon that raises troubling questions for those who think the case is resolved. After a state court acquited the policemen of using excessive force against King, a federal court found some (including Koon) guilty of violating King's civil rights. King, seeking millions in damages, also filed civil suits against the city of Los Angeles and the officers. But, the author points out, though they awarded King damages from the city of Los Angeles, the jurors, learning of King's ne'er-do-well history, did not find the officers liable. Dietz argues that federal prosecutors knowingly used false testimony from officer Ted Briseno during the state trial to gain convictions against Koon and Laurence Powell in the federal one. He quotes a police educator, recruited by prosecutors as an expert witness, who, after seeing the complete videotape of the incident, could not judge that the force used was unreasonable. Also, he quotes three members of the federal jury, who have signed yet-unofficial affidavits, as saying they have reservations about the verdict and the sentence given to Koon and Powell. Furthermore, federal judge John Davies? whose sentence has been appealed by prosecutors to the Supreme Court? determined that only in the last 19 seconds of the infamous video did the cops show unlawful force. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A hard-hitting conservative look at the aftermath of the 1991 police beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles-following the trial and acquittal of the four police accused, the black riots that followed, the politically correct second trial and conviction of the police, and all related. Has much information on King's background, the behavior of the police and courts under liberal media pressure, the unconstutionality of 'double jeopardy' trials, the craven behavior of public officicials fearing the 'racist' label, much more. Hardcover with dust jacket, chronology, notes, indexed, 213pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free archival protector. Rare. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
