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Posted on 04/09/2003 11:43:16 AM PDT by CFW
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:09:33 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
MIAMI (AP) In the biggest Miami police scandal in a generation, a federal jury convicted four officers of corruption Wednesday for planting a gun on an unarmed homeless man or lying about it to protect their colleagues.
The officers, all assigned to elite undercover teams, were charged after four police shootings in the mid-1990s left three people dead and another wounded. One of the victims, an elderly drug suspect, died in a hail of more than 100 bullets.
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