Rampart Conviction 131

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Charge:	Drug Related (Possession or sale)
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Year Crime:	1997
Year Convicted:	1998
Year Cleared:	2000
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	California
County or Region of Crime:	Los Angeles
City of Crime:	Los Angeles
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"The City of Los Angeles produced a report that 156 felony and 15 misdemeanor convictions were overturned as a result of misconduct by officers in the LAPD's Rampart division. The misconduct included, but wasn't limited to: planting drug evidence on suspects; stealing drug evidence; selling drugs; falsitying police reports; beating suspects; committing perjury. At least 13 of the 171 overturned cases involved juveniles. Six officers in the Rampart's CRASH unit were convicted of charges related to the scandal. The Rampart scandal resulted in the City of Los Angeles paying more than $78 million to victims as the result of lawsuits related to the police misconduct."
Conviction Caused By:	Perjured testimony of LAPD officers
Innocence Proved By:	New evidence of misconduct by the arresting officers in the CRASH unit of the LAPD's Rampart division.
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Information Source 1:	"Rampart Reconsidered: The Search for Real Reform Seven Years Later, By Constance L. Rice, Jan L. Handzlik, Laurie L. Levenson, Stephen A. Mansfield, Carol A. Sobel, Edgar Hugh Twine, Erwin Chemerinsky, Andrea Ordin, and Maurice Suh, LAPD Police Commission, July 2006"
Information Location 1:	http://www.lacp.org/2006-Articles-Main/071506-Rampart%20Reconsidered-Full%20Report.pdf
Information Source 2:	"Rampart Reconsidered: The Search for Real Reform Seven Years Later -- Appendices, By Constance L. Rice, Jan L. Handzlik, Laurie L. Levenson, Stephen A. Mansfield, Carol A. Sobel, Edgar Hugh Twine, Erwin Chemerinsky, Andrea Ordin, and Maurice Suh, LAPD Police Commission, July 2006 (Appendice C -- Rampart CRASH Scandal Scorecard lists the number of cases overturned, etc.)"
Information Location 2:	http://www.lacp.org/2006-Articles-Main/071506-Rampart%20Reconsidered-Appendices%20Final.pdf
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Rampart Conviction 131

Charge:

Drug Related (Possession or sale)

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

1997

Year Convicted:

1998

Year Cleared:

2000

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

California

County or Region of Crime:

Los Angeles

City of Crime:

Los Angeles

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Perjured testimony of LAPD officers

Innocence Proved By:

New evidence of misconduct by the arresting officers in the CRASH unit of the LAPD's Rampart division.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"Rampart Reconsidered: The Search for Real Reform Seven Years Later, By Constance L. Rice, Jan L. Handzlik, Laurie L. Levenson, Stephen A. Mansfield, Carol A. Sobel, Edgar Hugh Twine, Erwin Chemerinsky, Andrea Ordin, and Maurice Suh, LAPD Police Commission, July 2006"

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http://www.lacp.org/2006-Articles-Main/071506-Rampart%20Reconsidered-Full%20Report.pdf

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http://www.lacp.org/2006-Articles-Main/071506-Rampart%20Reconsidered-Appendices%20Final.pdf

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