European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday March 30,1991may 13 trial set in . Beating los Angeles up a three police officers and a sergeant accused of beating a Motorist in an incident captured on videotape were ordered to stand trial on May 13.Quot a Quot of a. A a a. Superior court judge Bernard j. Kamins Over the protests of defense attorneys who argued that they needed More time to prepare their cases set the trial Date thursday for sgt. Stacey Koon 40, and officers Laurence Powell 28, Timothy wind 30, and Ted Briseno 38. A a a. All four Are charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Koon Powell and wind Are also charged with inflicting great bodily injury on King. Koon and Powell Are also charged with filing false police reports allegedly to cover up the severity of the beating. The four were indicted by the county grand jury on assault charges in the March 3 beating of Rodney King that left the unemployed parolee with possibly crippling injuries that included 11 Skull fractures. A a the state department of Justice meanwhile began investigating King As a possible suspect in the robbery of an electronics store some 10 Days before the beating took place lbs Angeles police took the robbery report but concerned about a conflict of interest turned Over the investigation to the state Agency spokeswoman Kati Corsaut said. Kamins took Over the Case after winds lawyer Paul Dipasquale filed a motion to disqualify the first judge assigned to the Case Superior court judge John Reid. The defense a right to remove a judge assigned to a Case before it is heard is equivalent to the right attorneys for both sides have to dismiss prospective jurors before a trial. Dipasquale would not say Why he wanted Reid off the Case. V a. A a a a a the routine business of setting a trial Date was accented by the courthouse appearance of the Rev. A1 Sharpton a controversial Black rights activist from new York. Surrounded by reporters Sharpton said he came to los Angeles to join the Call for police chief Daryl Gates resignation and to Lead a City Hall rally against police brutality. A those that relate to me i Hope will participate to show that the people of color Are being crucified by Law enforcement a he said. The racial overtones of the Case have drawn Calls from civil rights leaders nationwide for Gates to step  records show officers made racial slurs and taunted the 25-Ycar-old Altadena Man a evidence civil rights activists say proves minorities Are maltreated by from left Stacey Koon Ted Brisano and Laurence Powell three of the four los Angeles policemen indicted in the Rodney King beating Case appear in court thursday for a trial Date which was set for May 13 police. A. A Sharpton accompanied by several bodyguards dismissed reports that he is unwelcome in los Angeles and that his critics believe he will Divide the Community. A Quot a. Local Black leaders in the movement to oust Gates and Reform the police department1 said they were a a puzzled by Sharpton a visit and said his style of con Fronta Tonui tactics was a a inconsistent with their desire to work with the system. A we live in this Community. We will be the ones to live or die with the consequences of what we do Here Quot said Joseph Duff president of the los Angeles chapter of the a act. �?oa1 Sharpton is from new York City. We done to need a1 Sharpton and his Brand of leadership to Tell us How to take care of things in los Angeles a Duff said. Sharpton outside court said a a done to blame us for the division that the police did. We re Here because police brutality is Here. Sharpton has placed himself in the Center of some of the More sensational racial cases in the new York area in the past few years. He was an adviser to Talaria Brawley a teen Ager of Wappinger Falls n.y., who falsely claimed she was raped and kidnapped by a group of White  lesion discovered on first lady. Washington a Barbara Bush has a lesion known As a Papule on her forehead that will be removed by doctors her spokeswoman said Friday. Mrs. Bush referred to the raised lesion As a not a big Deal a press Secretary Anna Perez said Papules Are raised skin lesions that Are usually benign and Are removed by burning freezing or excising and Are then examined by a pathologist. They Are common to people who have spent a lot of time in the Sun. The Papule was discovered tuesday during the f>5-year-old first lady a routine physical examination at Bethesda naval medical Center. A she said she was Fine. She got a clean Bill of health Quot Perez said of the first lady a Overall condition. Perez did not know when the Papule would be removed. Last Winter mrs. Bush surgically had a Small skin cancer removed from her upper lip. 2 Fla. Policemen indicted West Palm Beach Fla. Apr a grand jury indicted two City police officers thursday on second degree murder charges in the beating death a pedestrian who scuffled with the officers. Officers Stephen Rollins and Glen Thurlow surrendered at the Palm Beach county jail minutes after the indictments were released. They were charged in the nov. 24 death of Robert Jewett whom they stopped As he walked beside a Road. Rollins and Thurlow working undercover had pulled to the curb near the Palm Beach Post building to question Jewett a scuffle began. Joe Huffman a former engraver for the paper who happened to be driving by told the grand jury he saw Rollins repeatedly hitting Jewett with a flashlight while Thurlow held him around the neck. An autopsy concluded that Jewett 34, died from Blunt trauma to the Chest and neck. His injuries included bruises to his face a broken Adams Apple several broken ribs and ruptured Testicles. A the had the most severe testicular damage in be Ever seen a said Broward county medical examiner Ronald Wright after testifying thursday. Wright was contacted to give a second opinion on the autopsy. /. He concluded Jewett was killed by a combination of Blunt trauma arid asphyxiation either from a choke hold or blows to the neck and ribs with the flashlight. A a in a very delighted that Justice was served a said Louise Jewett the victims Mother. A it takes a special kind of person to be a police officer. But they be got to have some Cool. They be got to have some empathy. A Why did they have to keep hitting him a the officers also were charged with aggravated Battery. Each was freed on $10,000 Bond. Kalamazoo Mich. A a judge Friday refused to Block enforcement of Michigan a new Law requiring minors to get permission from a Parent to have an abortion Kalamazoo county. Circuit court judge Philip Schaefer ruled that opponents of the Law failed to prove it was unconstitutionally vague on its restrictions on the abortions that doctors May perform on minors in life threatening cases. The decision came on Good Friday a traditional Day for anti abortion demonstrations around the country. In North Dakota where the governor next week could sign or veto the country s most restrictive abortion Law Riviore than two dozen protesters in Fargo chained themselves inside the states Only abortion clinic. They were later arrested. The Michigan Law which went into effect thursday requires girls under age 18 to have a Parent s consent for abortion or to seek a waiver from a probate judge. The Michigan chapter of the american civil liberties Union and planned parenthood affiliates of Michigan argued the Law violated the state Constitution. Schaefer wrote a while recent trends in California and Florida May demonstrate that states Are willing to expand rights beyond the Federal Constitution through interpretation of the state constitutions it is equally Clear that opponents of legislation of this Type have an Uphill Battle no matter How interesting or How challenging their claims  Acle attorney Elizabeth Gleicher said Schaefer disregarded the Law with his ruling. A judge Schaefer overruled the court of appeals which he does not have a right to do a Gleicher said