SHOW TIME: Orange County's William J. Kopeny,...

By Jerry Hicks, Cristina Lee and Helene Elliott

Feb. 5, 1992 12 AM PT

SHOW TIME: Orange County’s William J. Kopeny, co-counsel for LAPD officer Ted Briseno in the Rodney King trial, says the judge has good media control over the courtroom, but outside it’s a circus. . . . “About 20 photographers were shooting me doing nothing, just carrying in huge boxes of legal papers,” Kopeny says. “They kept shooting while I struggled to open the door; not one of them would stop shooting long enough to open it for me.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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