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DATE: SATURDAY, August 28, 1993                   TAG: 9308280145
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                LENGTH: Short

U.S. ATTORNEY TO APPEAL SENTENCES IN KING TRIAL

The government will appeal the 30-month prison sentences given two policemen convicted of violating Rodney King's civil rights in a 1991 videotaped beating, a prosecutor said Friday.

U.S. Attorney Terree A. Bowers, who had criticized the sentences for Sgt. Stacey Koon and Officer Laurence Powell as too lenient, said the government filed a notice of appeal Friday in federal court in Los Angeles.

U.S. District Judge John G. Davies could have sentenced Koon and Powell to 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines. Federal guidelines called for sentences of about six to seven years.

Instead, Davies said on Aug. 4, he was imposing lesser sentences in part because a combative King provoked the beating. - Associated Press 


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