Criminal,
Law Practice
May 2, 2008
The Elephant in the Room
Even if the verdict in the Sean Bell case was correct, the court fell short when it failed to acknowledge the elephant in the room: the number of gunshots fired.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
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Whittier Law School
"Come now, it wasn't like they shot two or 300 times," I said in an preemptive effort to attack the tension. "They stopped after 50."
In Los Angeles, like New York, we are used to racially charged police misconduct verdicts operating as a centrifuge to separate the races, and the recent case in Queens involving the shooting death of Sean Bell is no exception.
As attorneys, we are also used to people coming up to ...
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