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i • Discussion of the case during the i
1 campaign for the district attorney's office,
I which is on the November ballot, and
the Los Angeles mayoral elec- ,
tion, to·be held in April.
: • Possible federal indictments of Powell
the other officers in the King case.
~ One expert' in criminal appeals, Santa
Monica attorney Dennis A. Fischer, called:
the list of questions extraordinary because ;
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1 of its -length and detail. He agreed with
Stone that the questions-many of which
I , were raised in Powell's petition to the
l,.co1,1rt-signaled. the justices' inclination to
move the retrial out of Los Angeles.
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Mark Epstein, a Los Angeles attorney ·
~·who clerked for the California and U.S.
! supr.~me courts, agreed, though more caul
tiously.
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"It's always like reading tea leaves, but :
I to the extent you can read anything into it, ,
i it probably bedes better for the defense
than the prosecution,'' said Epstein, who
, also served on the Christopher Commis- ,
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i. sion's le~al staff. "It could also be the court
[jus_t _\"_ant~~~~lve t~~s very fas-=:__