LOS ANGELES : Jury Selection Begins in Murder Trial of Officer
Jury selection began Friday in the trial of a Los Angeles police officer charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of an unarmed tow truck driver.
Opening statements in the trial of Douglas J. Iversen are expected to get under way next week, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Hank Goldberg.
Iversen, 45, maintains that he saved lives when he shot John L. Daniels at a service station on Crenshaw Boulevard and Florence Avenue on July 1, 1992.
The veteran police officer says he was trying to check the tow truck’s registration because he suspected that the vehicle was unregistered. He claims that Daniels refused to allow him to do the inspection and drove off, and appeared to be on a collision course with pedestrians.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Kathy Mader contends that Iversen had a vendetta against tow-truck drivers.
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