Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Police officer who ejaculated on motorist found not guilty

An 11 man, 1 woman(i think that is the key to the verdict) jury in Orange County found Irvine police officer
David Alex Park not guilty of three felony charges after he pulled over
a female motorist (a dancer from Captain Cream Cabaret, identified as
"Lucy" in court) and ejaculated on her sweater. 200702121628
Four months earlier, Park had stopped Lucy under similar circumstances.
That time, he’d ignored a plastic drug baggie he’d found in her car and
her suspended license. But the stop wasn’t a waste of time. After
friendly chit-chat, the officer had scored Lucy’s phone number.
Telephone records show that Park called the stripper the next morning.
She told him she was too busy to meet.

On the witness stand, Park explained that he’d called Lucy out of
concern for a citizen’s safety. He also shrugged his shoulders when
[sex crimes prosecutor Shaddi] Kamiabipour slowly listed the first
names of nine Captain Cream female employees—Annette, Denise, Rashele,
Marlia, Brandi, Andrea, Deborah, Laura and Shannon—whose license plates
he’d run through the DMV computer in the weeks prior to his sexual
encounter with Lucy. (Another coincidence, according to [defense
attorney Al ] Stokke.) Jurors also learned that Irvine Police Sgt.
Michael Hallinan had previously warned Park as they left work to stay
away from the strippers.

Park, who works in construction nowadays, conceded that he’d
been given the warning but claimed that he had no clue it was Lucy in
the vehicle or that she had an invalid driver’s license, even as he
approached her car window.

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