91. The investigation is similar to that conducted by federal prosecutors after a state jury acquitted the Los Angeles police officers involved in the beating of Rodney King. 92. The jury acquits Alim. 93. The jury acquitted Gigante of all seven murder charges against him. 94. The jury acquitted him of first-degree murder charges, which carried a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. 95. The jury acquitted him of those charges but convicted him of sodomy after the trial judge had made that option available. 96. The jury acquitted Nathaniel of first-degree murder, which would have required the prosecution to prove him guilty of planning the killing. 97. The jury acquitted Powell of rape and aggravated sodomy, believing that the woman had given her consent, but found him guilty of sodomy. 98. The jury acquitted the two brothers on several burglary and second-degree murder charges, but said that they were deadlocked on nine other counts. 99. The jury acquitted Weaver on the weapons charges. 100. The jury also acquitted East End Pools and Courts, the company Torpey worked for at the time, of criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter. |