officers - The Black Vault

lvr
f'D·350 (Rev. S·B·e 1)
•
•(hdicate page, neme of
newapaper, ctty and a!Bte.)
THE OUTLOOK
SANTA MONICA, CA
{Mo:.~nt Cbpp~ng in Space Below)
I~~:~ _;~~!!::i:::~;;~;;:j.
~~::~:::iiN~Eg~~~N~~~iNST
~r================~~~~~~~~~~~====~~~-i~:THURS., 8-13-92
By The Associated Press :
Police Sgt. Stacey Koon, a defendant 1
in the Rodney King videotaped beating ·
. case, is accused in a separate civil suit of I
· helping to cover up officer misconduct
1
: in a 1989 shooting case.
Attorney John Burton said in opening
statements in Los Angeles on Tuesday
that his client,_ John Shelton iJr., was
mistaken for a rol:ibery suspect and shot
in the chest by police.
· Koon is accused in the suit of telling
officers how to cover up the incident in
department reports of the July 22, 1989
incident. Koon is one of four officers
indicted last week on federal charges of
civil rights violations in the 1991 King
I beating.
Shelton's suit seeks an unspecified '
. amount in damages for violations of his·
civil rights.
I
The man, who· was on parole at the'
time of the incident, spent nearly a year I
in prison despite charges being dropped
when the alleged victim refused to testi-1
fy ..
Shelton was jailed for 11 months after
1
officers told a parole board hearing that 1
he had committed the robbery, Shel-!
ton's attorney claimed.
Koon's lawyer, Thomas Feeley, said
his client did not supervise th~ Police
Department's investigation of the offi- i
cer-involved shooti~g and should not be
included in the list' of defendants that
1
also names forme~ · Police Chief Daryl;
Gates, the City of Los Angeles and 15
other officers.
Chlncttr:
or
Classification:
Submitting Office:
LO$ ~~ I I 6\)r.)J t.'l J;
lndeq: \VJ. ..... un ., 1 r ' , . '-.)
SEARCHED INDEXED / I
SERIAUZED b