GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR: A Los Angeles district attorney Will have to decide whether to retry three LAPD police officers. A superior court judge last night overturned their convictions in the Rampart corruption scandal. Charles Feldman reports on what that could mean for future prosecution.</s>JUDGE JACQUELINE CONNOR, LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT: Then you're leaving it up the media...</s>CHARLES FELDMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Judge Jacqueline Connor has overturned the guilty convictions of the three LAPD officers, citing insufficient evidence. The three, Sergeants Edward Ortiz and Brian Liddy and Officer Michael Buchanan were the first LAPD cops brought to trial because of the Rampart division corruption scandal. A jury found them guilty last month on conspiracy charges, but a series of hearings quickly followed, with the judge investigating everything from possible juror misconduct to allegedly flawed evidence used during jury deliberation.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have accumulated a lot of experience.</s>FELDMAN: Since the trail, L.A. County has a new district attorney. How this judicial overturn might affect any future Rampart prosecution is at this time unclear. A spokeswomen for the DA tells CNN that time is now needed to study the judge's ruling before any determination can be made whether to retry the three officers. A lawyer representing Officer Buchanan tells CNN that his client is elated by the judge's ruling. He says the officers knew they were not guilty to begin with. Charles Feldman, CNN, Los Angeles.
Superior Court Judge Overturns Convictions of Three LAPD Officers