Illegally Park-ed

[IRiSHMaFIA]

No one disputes that an on-duty Irvine police officer got an erection and ejaculated on a motorist during an early-morning traffic stop in Laguna Beach. The female driver reported it, DNA testing confirmed it and officer David Alex Park finally admitted it.

When the case went to trial, however, defense attorney Al Stokke argued that Park wasn’t responsible for making sticky all over the woman’s sweater. He insisted that she made the married patrolman make the mess—after all, she was on her way home from work as a dancer at Captain Cream Cabaret.

“She got what she wanted,” said Stokke. “She’s an overtly sexual person.”

A jury of one woman and 11 men—many white and in their 50s or 60s—agreed with Stokke. On Feb. 2, after a half-day of deliberations, they found Park not guilty of three felony charges that he’d used his badge to win sexual favors during the December 2004 traffic stop.

Park, 31, was red-faced and unable to control his twitching foot in the moments before the verdict was announced; if convicted, he would have faced prison. When he was found not guilty, he briefly embraced Stokke. In the public seating section, tears flowed from his gray-haired mother’s face. His father, a mechanic, closed his eyes and threw his head back. Outside the courtroom, surrounded by his family, a smiling Park said he felt vindicated.

Veteran sex crimes prosecutor Shaddi Kamiabipour—who’d called Park “a predator” during the nine-day trial—said she was disappointed with the verdicts. She also dismissed Stokke’s contention that the Orange County District Attorney’s office had overcharged the case. At stake, Kamiabipour said, was the principle that no one—not even a horny cop who’d once won honors for community service—is above the law.

“Park didn’t pick a housewife or a 17-year-old girl,” Kamiabipour said in her closing argument. “He picked a stripper. He picked the perfect victim.”

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The guy got off in more ways than one That's pretty ridiculous that any woman on the jury would go along with that verdict. He's just what the prosecutor called him....a predator.

[eefanincan]

I can't get beyond:

"she was a dancer at the Captain Cream Cabaret".

[Skylace]

Just disgusting. Just because she's an exotic dancer doesn't mean she wants men to just cum on her. He's a sick man and I feel sorry for whoever else he hurts because the jury didn't view the woman as a human being.

[IRiSHMaFIA]

LMAO I can hardly see From both eefan and Skylaces comments I'm creased over!!

[Skylace]

What happened to the police officer who ejaculated all over his victim?


He got off!

[faceless]

I'll use this story as proof that coppers are wankers (if proof was ever required).

[Twirley]

It just shows you how bad the justice system can be in some states over here.

What a pathetic excuse for a man!!!

Disgusting!

[Skylace]

[IRiSHMaFIA]

I guess anyone being stopped by this freak in future should put on a raincoat and wellies before getting out the car if they're anywhere decent looking.

[girldorksrule]

Not all cops are like him. He makes the good ones look bad, sadly.

[major.tom]

In extreme cases like this, can't the judge set aside the verdict, saying (in essence) the jury didn't follow the law?

I thought the "she was asking for it" defence argument was all but dead.