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Israelis and Palestinians stun the world with their biggest step yet toward peace. Meeting in secret, negotiators devise a plan for the Palestinians to share the land both call home...
...provided this trial's most compelling moments. Rather than experience him only as a silent presence or a moving shadow on videotape, jurors could see the fateful night through his eyes. He described lying on the ground waiting to be handcuffed, only to be shocked by Koon with a stun gun. He recalled running toward his car, throwing his hands over his face. He said, in complete accord with the evidence, "I wasn't trying to hit any police officer." Said Denver trial lawyer Dan Caplis, a consultant on the case for NBC News: "The whole defense is based...
...witness stand as federal prosecutors sought to convict four white police officers accused of depriving King of his civil rights in a 1991 beating. Calmly, politely, King testified that he led police on a chase because he feared a return to prison. He described being shocked by a police stun gun; he said police taunted him. Defense lawyers tried to rock King. One tried to pin him down on whether officers called him "killer" or "nigger." King was blurry on details, but Laurie Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, says, "When the jury went back...
...addition to the assault with intent to murder charges and the unlawful possession of a stun-gun charge, two of the four suspects who were arraigned, of whom two were male and two female, were charged with disturbing the peace, Pasquarello said. Other charges included unlawful possession of ammunition and malicious destruction of property...
Police recovered a plastic replica of a firearm from one of two youths arrested seconds before the shooting occurred, Pasquarello said. The .38 caliber gun used in the incident had not been recovered, he said. The stun-gun is the third gun or gun-like object involved in the Friday night incident