From: Jim Rosenfield <[j n r] at [igc.apc.org]>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs
Date: 30 Mar 93 07:39 PST
Subject: Scott Raid Unjustified (L A TIMES)


L.A.TIMES 3/30/92

VENTURA D.A. SAYS FATAL RAID WAS UNJUSTIFIED

Dayl Kelley, Times Staff Writer

Ventura - A drug raid that left a reclusive Malibu millionaire 
fatally shot last fall was not legally justified and was prompted 
in part by authorities' desire to seize the man's $5 million ranch, 
Ventura County Dist. Atty. Michael D. Bradbury has concluded.

Sources familiar with Bradbury's inquiry into the death of Donald P. Scott 
said the prosecutor will report today that a Los Angeles County Sheriff's 
Deputy shot the gun-wielding rancher in self-defense, but that the deputy 
should not have been on the ranch in the first place...............