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By Philipp Gollner who is representing Officer Theo- ,
\ Daily News Staff Writer dore Briseno. "If you are innocent,
you don't worry about what you are
1 From curbside press conferences going to say."·
to live, raucous television call-in Their attorneys al~o say the offi-
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: deb.ates, three of four officers cers are taking to the airwaves to ,
!· charged in the Rodney King beat- show that they are political scape- ~
: ing are taking their case to the pub- goats in an election year. i
I li? before their federal civil-rights But legal experts say the officers I
: tnal next year. may. be trying to influence potential 1
' The publicity blitz - including jurors who will decide the officers' 1l
· talk-radio debates with African- fates when the case goes to trial ,
American callers, appearances on next year. 1
I CNN's Larry King Live and a book "At·least they get the defense
1 on the beating - is a marked de- story out to the potential jury pool 'I
parture from the low-key approach before jury selection," said Laurie
that the three LAPD officers and a Levenson, a Loyola Law School !
! former officer took before their first professor and a former prosecutor !
: trial on criminal charges in Simi with the U.S. Attorney's Office in j
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Los Angeles.
. But the stakes are different this "The problem is lhat all the 'i
1 time, attorneys in the case say. mechanisms in jury selection are i
· With most of the facts laid out in designed to weed out those people, :
. the first trial- which ended in the so that if the system works right, all \
officers' acquittals on all but one this pretrial propaganda shouldn't '
1 count - the officers are less con- rriake a difference," she said. /
: cerned that their statements will be "But those experienced in the ·
i used as prosecutorial ammunition, area know that jurors are not al- 1
defense attorneys said.
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DAILY NEWS
SAN FERNANDO, CA
Date: MON. I ll-9-92
Edition: FRONT PAGE
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