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LOS ANGELES — A defendant was found innocent yesterday of attempting to murder trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 riots, capping a nearclean sweep for the defense on major charges in the case.
Spectators gasped as the court clerk read "not guilty" in the finale of the tortured series of jury deliberations which left some jurors ill and prolonged the suspense for days.
"The power of prayer had led to the verdicts," said Georgiana Williams, the defendant's mother. "I'm giving the victory to Jesus."
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Defendant Damian Williams smiled and hugged his attorneys. "They didn't have a case," said defense attorney Nei Eda Fai.
Superior Court Judge John Ouderkirk declared a mistrial on one deadlocked count, assault with a deadly weapon, against co-defendant Henry Watson.
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The judge ordered Watson, 29,
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been convicted of only one misdemeanor, which has a maximum jail term of six months. Watson commented "it's a nice day out today" as he left the building. He arrived home before noon as car horns blew in his neighborhood.
Williams and Watson, both African American, were accused of attempted murder and other charges in the attacks on Denny, who is white, and several others in the opening moments of the riots. Denny was dragged from his rig at a South-Central intersection and nearly beaten to death as a TV news camera recorded the scene from a helicopter.
The defendants had been jailed 17 months since their arrest. Williams, 20, remained jailed.
The riots swept the city April 29, 1992, following the state acquittals in another videotaped incident — the 1991 beating of African-American Rodney King by white police officers. On Monday, when most of the Denny verdicts were announced, the jury acquitted Williams and Watson of some of the most serious counts and convicted them of reduced charges in other counts. Williams was convicted of a single felony, a reduced charge of mayhem in the attack on Denny, and
four midemeadon assault counts in attacks on others.
"There is a lot of white anger, there is a lot of Black anger, but it's healthy because it says we are out of the closet, we are dealing with the racism in the justice system." Murray said.
Mayhem has a maximum sentence of eight years. The misdemeanors carry maximum terms of six months.
The Rev. Cecil Murray of First African Methodist Church in the South Central neighborhood praised the racially mixed jury as "a microcosm of the larger macrocosm of America."
Prosecutors said Williams was the man on the videotape seen throwing a brick at Denny's head and dancing in glee. But the defense challenged the identification as well as the prosecution claim that the actions seen on the tape were proof that the defendants intended to kill Denny.
Faal said the guilty verdicts would be appealed. On the attempted murder count, he took a calculated risk not to let the jury opt to find Williams guilty on a lesser, related charge.
There were four African Americans, four Hispanics, two whites and two Asian-Americans on the jury. The suburban jury that acquitted the
white officers in the King case had no African Americans.
Denny had no immediate comment on yesterday's verdict. But on Monday, he said he supported the acquittal of Watson of attempted murder because he "spent a year and a half in jail and has had time to think about what happened." After he testified during the trial, Denny hugged the defendants' mothers.
Mayor Richard Riordan urged residents to put the case behind them. Police street presence was boosted each day since Monday, and the modified alert stayed in effect after the last verdict, a representative said.
Denny has said he has no memory of the attack, which inflicted severe brain damage.
District Attorney Gil Garcetti said there was shock at the verdicts, but he sought to stress that crimes in general were being punished.
Last week, the case seemed headed for mistrial when the judge replaced an African-American woman juror after fellow jurors said she was failing to deliberate. That action will likely figure in any defense appeal.
Deliberations, which began Oct. 1, had to begin all over again when jurors were replaced.
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