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LA TIMES
LOS ANGELES,
~:FRI., 5/15/92
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;weisbe_ rg on_ Po_,11el, I Retrial Ruling ntte: LAW, Nor UNREST, sEEN
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t' By SHERYL STOLBERG · · ~ould b.e ~ri ~~~Y ~n~ .. A: prosecutor asks ' RETRIAL RULING
;.-:TIMES STAFF WRITER for a retnal; the Judge-unless he feels Ct..c11r.
t· · · • strongly that it "is not in the .interest of · «
F Now, th~ spotlight shiftsJp Stanley justice to go fo!ward-sal'~ yes. Butthe!)e . CllssHication:
· M. Weisberg. · · . are hardly ordinary times. · . Submitting Office:
k· From. March to f\pril, W~isberg Instead, Weisberg must J,llake:his rul- LOS ANGELES
r- _se~ved as the Superior Court judge .in the · ing against the backdrop of the riots.·He 1-..._-- ..... -:----------­
~: ~odney G. King beatil'!g case. The b'ald- . will no doubt consider, as Los Angeles ·---ow
~ ing, bespectacled jurist presided over the ' County Dist. Atty .• Ira Heiner noted
·.sometimes heated proceedings with a Wednesday, that to :retry Powell in
~~.s.ens~ .Of cool. detachm_ent, lik_e ~~ owl .. post-riot Lo!? ·.Angeles_ ~·wo, uld, reopen
g,peeru)g out from the limbs of a distant . .some very painful wopnt\8." ,:.; • · .,.·. ··.
~';tr;~d~y. ~ith t~e city still re~ling from ··~A-· ;{d , it~·. n1~~a~~~·:knc)\\(:tnat
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~ tl).e riots spa!;' ked by the outrigpt acquit-.. , . . . _ consider hill?- p~rt_ly ~.esyonsible for ...
l~·p11 of three of the four Los Angeles pqHce. " ~he .outcome of the -first-case because of
~·~fficers accused in the beating, WeisRerg. his decisiqn 19-t~~nsf,er tl}e tr~al t.l? largely
}takescentersta:ge. : ·,·,,,:~ ,,.:-:.: 7·~ .}:: ·• • white Ventura County. There,ajury6f10 .:
; It will be up to him to decide .whether whites, an :Asian~American