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Subject: VENICE Man Gets Year in Assault on Bicyclist During Riots
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 06:38:52 EST
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HEADLINE: VENICE Man Gets Year in Assault on Bicyclist During Riots
Publication Date: Tuesday November 17, 1992
BYLINE: 

A man accused in the beating of a bicyclist in Venice during the
first hours of the spring's civil unrest was sentenced Monday to a year
in jail.

   James Hill, 23, pleaded no contest to charges that he and four black
co-defendants attacked the white bicyclist in the Oakwood section of
Venice a few hours after four police officers were acquitted in the
Rodney G. King beating trial.

   Santa Monica Superior Court Judge David Perez also placed Hill, who
was once convicted of drug possession, on probation for three years.

   A second defendant, Shauntee Snodgrass, 21, was released after Perez
suspended a four-year sentence on Nov. 5. Snodgrass, who also entered a
no-contest plea, was given three years probation and ordered to pay $300
in restitution to bicyclist Mark Rosenberg. Rosenberg was beaten
unconscious and suffered a concussion and a broken collarbone in the
April 29 incident.

   A third defendant, Arron Soil, was acquitted. Charges against two
others were dropped.


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