The Associated PressJuly 4, 1999
Tak Sun Tan, Jason Chan and Indra Lim were found guilty in the 1996 slaying.
None of the juries determined who actually did the shooting, but they ruled that one of the men had a gun the night the "Killing Fields" star was shot to death in a holdup in an alley behind his Chinatown-area apartment.
Chan, 20, faces up to life in prison without parole; Tan, 21, and Lim, 20, each face 25 years to life.
Ngor, a doctor who escaped from Cambodia in 1980, won an Academy Award for the 1984 movie "The Killing Fields," in which he portrayed Dith Pran, the Cambodian assistant to a New York Times reporter. Ngor drew on his firsthand experience as a victim of torture under Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and its leader, Pol Pot. Pol Pot died of heart failure Wednesday.
Separate juries were chosen because one defendant made statements implicating the others. During the seven-week trial, all three juries were in court together at times. But more often, just one jury was present.
The jury hearing Tan's case deliberated the longest, two weeks.
Copyright 1999
Haing Ngor trial: Three gang members convicted
LOS ANGELES -- In an extraordinary case involving three juries in one courtroom, three gang members were convicted Thursday of murdering Haing Ngor, the Oscar-winning actor who survived the killing fields of Cambodia only to die on the streets of Los Angeles.