Word: yochelson
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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Faced with what was probably to be an unsympathetic audience, it may not have been an advantage to Terry White, the soft-spoken, studious-looking lead prosecutor, that he was black. (Alan S. Yochelson, his co-prosecutor, was white.) Though the prosecutors objected strongly when it was first suggested that the trial be moved to Simi Valley, the pair acknowledged that they were powerless to reverse the judge's decision once it had been made. But they could take comfort from the fact that juries in Ventura County had decided against the police in three of the five police-brutality...
...husband-wife team of officers from the California Highway Patrol who were present at the beating. In contrast, the defense presented 49 witnesses, almost all of whom were police officers or experts on law enforcement who claimed that the defendants' conduct fell within L.A.P.D. guidelines. White and Yochelson also failed to call any of 30 civilian witnesses to the beating whose testimony might have contradicted that of the defendants...
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