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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Larry Clark's murder trial will have elements of a history lesson, taking jurors back nearly 36 years to a time of black militancy and civil strife, a time when police officers were sometimes targets.
It hardly seems distant, however, to Dan Bostrom, a former police sergeant who saw Officer James Sackett on the ground, mortally wounded by a sniper as he responded to a fake call about a woman in labor. Bostrom cried in the courtroom last month when Clark's co-defendant, Ronald Reed, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
"It's amazing how long ago this was, but it seems like it was just yesterday," said Bostrom, who was Sackett's sergeant and is now a City Council member. "Having been there the night it happened, struggling for years with no closure to this, we're looking for closure. That's the biggest thing."
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