Photos

Dr. Ronald Wright demonstrating on a plastic skull where McDuffie’s skull was fractured. Photo Courtesy of
Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives

Arthur McDuffie. Photo Courtesy of
Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives

Wright diagram of the blows struck with such force that it was if McDuffie had fallen on his head from a fourth story and landed on concrete. Photo Credit: Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Ubaldo Del Toro shortly after the judge ordered a directed verdict of acquittal. Photo: Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives

Defense attorneys inspect the Kawasaki 900 that McDuffie was riding. Photo: Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives

Herbert Evans and his attorney, Ed Carhart, in the Tampa courtroom. Photo credit: Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives

Defendant Ira Diggs. Photo credit: Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives

The state’s lead witness: Charles Veverka Jr. Photo credit: Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives

Michael Watts had been a lead subject of a Miami Herald police brutality series, but only one witness at the trial testified that he’d seen Watts hit McDuffie — and he said on cross-examination the witness said he might be mistaken.

Defendant Michael Watts. Photo credit: Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives