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Although the tests showed traces of marijuana,
Nixon said the drug could have been ingested months
ago.
Nixon said the department received the results of
the blood test on Monday and the urine test on
Tuesday.
According to grand jury documents reviewed by
The Times, there were contradictory conclusions
made by police, witnesses and physicians about
whether King was intoxicated __ at the scene. .--·
Dr. AQtonio Mancia, an emergency r09m physician
at Pacifica Hospital in Sun Valley who examined King,
said he found "no clinical evidence" that King was
under the influence of drugs or alcohol when LAPD
officers brought him into the hospital.
Mancia, the first physician to treat King, told
investigators that the patient was ''docile and cooper­
·ative."
. "King did not complain or make any accusations
: against anyone regarding his injuries," Mancia said in
· the investigators' reports. "King did not act like he
was under the influence of PCP or alcohol at the time
of the examination. King did not have slurred speech.
His pupils appeared normal."
King told investigators that he had consumed only
.one beer before he was arrested by police .. However,
California Highway Patrol Officer Melanie Singer, one
of the officers at the scene, described to investigators
how she first encountered King, who uses his middle
name of Glen:
"J walked over to the driver and asked him wh