Posted on 10/29/2003 6:20:04 PM PST by Brian S
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:44:37 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Four Miami police officers were given federal prison sentences ranging from about a year to three years Wednesday for planting guns after questionable police shootings or lying to cover them up.
Prosecutors asked for sentences as long as 11 years in the city's biggest police corruption scandal in nearly two decades, which was blamed on anti-crime units under pressure to halt a rash of deadly tourist robberies in the mid-1990s.
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