Rodney King Sentenced to Year in Drug Center
Rodney G. King was sentenced Friday to one year in a drug treatment center after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges in three cases, prosecutors said.
King, whose 1991 beating by Los Angeles police officers captured international attention, entered the pleas in Pomona Superior Court to three counts of being under the influence of PCP and one count of indecent exposure.
Judge Thomas Peterson sentenced King, 36, to one year at the American Recovery Center in Pomona. He ordered the center to inform the court and the Probation Department if King breaks any rules or tests positive for drugs. Prosecutors had wanted King to serve one year in county jail.
King was arrested three times in two months--Aug. 28 in Claremont and Sept. 29 and Oct. 13 in Pomona.
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