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...STACEY KOON He's no longer the most reviled ex-member of the L.A.P.D...
...panel of three federal judges said two Los Angeles policemen convicted of civil rights violations in the beating of motorist Rodney King should get tougher sentences. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, in Los Angeles, could double the 21/2-year terms given to Sgt. Stacey Koon and Officer Laurence Powell...
...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...
...Angeles is not necessarily safe yet. Koon and Powell come up for sentencing Aug. 4, and by then the trial of three blacks for the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny will be under way. The policemen could be imprisoned for 10 years. But if they get off with light sentences, and the Denny trial results in convictions and severe punishment for the blacks, the city -- and others -- could blow again. The Koon-Powell verdict has not so much purchased racial peace as averted -- for how long no one can tell -- more bloodshed, violence and animosity. But that...
...police chief Daryl Gates said it made him "sad." Stacey Koon's lawyer said his client had been made a "sacrificial animal." Some community leaders felt that only four-out-of-four convictions could right the imbalance created when Rodney King was beaten bloody, and Jesse Jackson noted, "We have been given a pause, not a plan." But after the verdict in the second King trial was read early Saturday morning, most voices raised were ones of relief and approval. President Clinton stated that the King panel had "really tried to do justice." His Attorney General, Janet Reno, simplified: "Justice...