MOVIES - Dec. 19, 1988

A New Orleans police lieutenant, John Schluter, has been found innocent of charges that he collected his police paycheck while working on the movie “The Big Easy,” which starred Dennis Quaid as a New Orleans police detective accused of corruption. Louisiana state judge Marvin Gahagan of Natchitoches, who was appointed to handle the case, acquitted Schluter on all 19 counts of payroll fraud Friday after a two-day trial. But that’s not all, folks: Schluter still faces other charges. He, and two other former state officials, are facing another charge, of monopolizing the state’s business with the film industry.