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...politically involved enough to receive an invitation from Bob Dole to a Republican "Inner Circle" luncheon in 1991. And he fended off criticism after courageously defending Theodore Briseno, one of the officers in the Rodney King case, because "he was the only one I saw who was trying to stop the beating...
Having testified at the Rodney King criminal trials that fellow officers bashed King in the head with their clubs, Theodore Briseno did an about-face at King's $9 million civil trial, stating this time that the blows actually hit King's arm. Why the flip-flop? Briseno said watching an enhanced version of the 1991 videotape changed his mind...
Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell lost their bid to stay free pending appeal of their convictions for violating Rodney King's civil rights. They will start serving their prison sentences later this month. Theodore Briseno, acquitted in the case, wants to remain a cop and went into hearings with Los Angeles police department officials who will decide if he will be allowed to return to duty...
...jury found Officers Theodore Briseno and Timothy Wind not guilty of the same charge. "That's all right!" cried someone in the crowd at First A.M.E. On the tape, Briseno appeared to be trying to deflect some of the blows...
...final week of Rodney King II, the civil rights trial, favored the prosecution. The government showed videotape of previous testimony by Officer Theodore Briseno suggesting that King was indeed beaten on the head, unnecessarily and intentionally; this undermined the "unified defense" Briseno had since joined. The prosecution's summation, too, was more compelling than the defendants'. Observers predicted conviction for Officer Laurence Powell and possibly Sergeant Stacey Koon. But Judge Davies feared that the jury would find itself deadlocked...