Word: stacey
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...kept their eyes away from the four defendants. An anxious city and nation listened as court clerk Jim Holmes began to read, in a practiced drone, the verdict the jurors had just handed Judge John Davies. How did the panel find on the charge that police sergeant Stacey Koon "did willfully permit" the savage beating of Rodney King by three other cops under his command, thus depriving King of his constitutional rights? Said Holmes: "Guilty...
...probably better this time. For one thing, it presented a united front. In the first trial, Officer Theodore Briseno testified that his fellow officers were "out of control." This time he and two other defendants opted military style to leave the talking to the senior officer, ) Sergeant Stacey Koon -- although a tape of Briseno's testimony was shown over vociferous objections from the defense...
...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...
THREE WEEKS AGO, RODNEY KING TESTIFIED COMpellingly about how Los Angeles police clubbed him in the head and shouted racial slurs during his notorious videotaped beating two years ago. This time it was a tough-talking Stacey Koon, one of four officers on trial for violating King's civil rights, who contended that King brought the beating on himself. Koon, the commanding officer on the scene, told jurors that King displayed threatening "hulk-like strength," appeared to be high on drugs and failed to heed police commands. "He made all the choices, all the wrong choices," said Koon. When...
...Your clothing should not be wild, but you want to have something that will make you memorable," says Stacey Matthews, a recruiter for Solomon Brothers in Boston...