Jury Rejects Family’s Claim Against 3 L.A. Officers : Courts: The federal panel says the rights of two brothers and others at a Lake View Terrace household were not violated during a 1991 arrest.

A federal court jury Friday rejected a Lake View Terrace family’s claim that three Los Angeles police officers ransacked their home last year during the arrest of two family members.

After deliberating for only three hours, the eight-member panel determined that the officers did not violate the civil rights of Bobby Everrett Jr., 23, and his brother, Brian, 21, or other members of their family.

A lawsuit by the family--including the men’s parents, Bobby Everrett Sr. and his wife, Pamela, as plaintiffs--accused the officers of entering the residence Jan. 18, 1991, without search or arrest warrants and falsely arresting the brothers for threatening youths at a party with a firearm.

The brothers, who are African-American, said they were accosted by a group of white “skinheads” at the party, but denied having threatened anyone. Brian Everrett was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. A similar charge against Bobby Everrett was dismissed.

The lead defendant in the lawsuit, former Officer Todd B. Parrick, was acquitted of misdemeanor vandalism charges last year along with two other officers in the so-called “39th Street and Dalton” police misconduct case. Parrick was fired from the Police Department in January after a police review panel found him guilty of misconduct in the beating of a Pacoima man.

Lawyers for Parrick and the other defendants--Officers James Brouseau and Isaac Galvin--said Friday they were not surprised by the verdict in favor of their clients.

“We’ve considered the accusations all along as frivolous,” said Peter J. Ferguson, Parrick’s lawyer. “The lawsuit was filed during the middle of the Dalton case, and I think it was done merely to take advantage of the notoriety surrounding Todd.”

Stephen Yagman, the lawyer for the Everrett family, declined to discuss the verdict. The family had asked for $10 million in damages.

One juror, who did not give her name, said while she would have preferred to see the police investigation handled differently, the officers were “put in an unfortunate situation and had to deal with it.”

She said Bobby Everrett Jr. gave conflicting testimony that made it difficult to determine if he had been arrested illegally. In a deposition, he said he had stepped outside the house voluntarily when confronted by the officers. But in the courtroom, he testified that when he answered the officers’ knock at the front door, Parrick yanked him onto the porch and slammed him against a wall.

Parrick and two other officers faced a criminal trial last year for their roles in the ransacking of four apartments at 39th Street and Dalton Avenue during a 1988 drug raid.

A Municipal Court jury found Parrick and the others not guilty on five of six counts lodged against them in that case. It deadlocked 9 to 3 in favor of acquittal on the sixth count, which was later dismissed.

Jurors in the Dalton case later said they believed police had vandalized the apartments, but that the prosecution had not proved the three accused officers were guilty. The prosecutor complained that the case had been stymied by a Police Department “code of silence” that deterred officers from testifying truthfully against one another.

During an administrative hearing in January, a panel of three police commanders found Parrick guilty on five of six charges stemming from an incident in Pacoima on Aug. 15, 1990.

In that matter, Parrick was accused of beating a man detained on suspicion of drinking in public in the San Fernando Gardens housing project, then writing a misleading report of the incident.