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Named Person: | Soon Ja Du; Latasha Harlins; Soon Ja Du; Latasha Harlins |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Brenda E Stevenson |
ISBN: | 9780199944576 0199944571 9780190231019 0190231017 |
OCLC Number: | 810533911 |
Description: | xxxi, 411 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | 'Tasha : the girl with the wonderful smile -- Soon Ja Du : "She had a good life in Korea" -- March 16, 1991 : not just another Saturday in South Central -- People v. Du : "I would dream of closing arguments" -- People v. Du : sentencing -- Whose fire this time? -- Epilogue : Justice? |
Responsibility: | Brenda E. Stevenson. |
Abstract:
"In The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, Brenda Stevenson tells the dramatic story of an earlier trial, a turning point on the road to the 1992 riot. On March 16, 1991, fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins, an African American who lived locally, entered the Empire Liquor Market at 9172 South Figueroa Street in South Central Los Angeles. Behind the counter was a Korean woman named Soon Ja Du. Latasha walked to the refrigerator cases in the back, took a bottle of orange juice, put it in her backpack, and approached the cash register with two dollar bills in her hand-the price of the juice. Moments later she was face-down on the floor with a bullet hole in the back of her head, shot dead by Du. Joyce Karlin, a Jewish Superior Court judge appointed by Republican Governor Pete Wilson, presided over the resulting manslaughter trial. A jury convicted Du, but Karlin sentenced her only to probation, community service, and a $500 fine. The author meticulously reconstructs these events and their aftermath, showing how they set the stage for the explosion in 1992"--Www.Amazon.com.
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Contested Murder makes it clear the tragedy inside the Empire Market and the violence that followed in South L.A. and Koreatown should be remembered by all Angelenos as a turning point in their history * Los Angeles Times * Read more...
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