Gets off completely on all charges.

hell, im surprised that cops nowadays can even be brought up on charges of any kind with this kind of legal invulnerability

http://www.ocweekly.com/news/news/illegally-park-ed/26661/

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"Illegally Park-ed An Irvine cop ejaculates on a motorist but escapes criminal liability By R. SCOTT MOXLEY Thursday, February 8, 2007 - 3:00 pm 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.” * * * In the wee hours of Dec. 15, 2004, Lucy (only her first name was used during the trial) finished her final shift at Captain Cream in Lake Forest, not far from the Irvine Spectrum. Management had let her go after an incident involving a female customer in a bathroom stall. According to court records, there had been a small amount of cocaine, kissing and breast fondling. Meanwhile, Park was on patrol in the southwest portion of Irvine. Prosecutors believe he was craving a sexual rendezvous, and so he watched for Lucy’s white BMW to leave the strip club parking lot, then tailed her, waiting for an excuse for a stop. Park insisted he’d been cruising on the 405 north and coincidentally saw Lucy’s vehicle weave and speed. Kamiabipour, the prosecutor, shook her head in disbelief. She knew the facts—that the officer had waited at least eight or nine minutes before stopping the stripper on a secluded section of a highway that was out of his jurisdiction. “He was stalking her,” she said. 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 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 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. Kamiabipour believed she’d caught the 6-foot-3 cop in a lie. Records show he ran the bosomy, 5-foot, 110-pound dancer’s license plate before the stop, did not call for backup despite the potential for an arrest and failed to tell his supervisor or dispatch that he was leaving Irvine. Several Irvine officers testified that Park’s behavior that night was odd. “[Park’s] testimony was just incredible,” said Kamiabipour. Irvine city officials must have doubted his story, too. After an exhaustive police internal affairs investigation, they felt it was prudent to give Lucy $400,000 to make her civil lawsuit go away—for fear a jury might give her much more. In a secretly-recorded phone call to Laguna Beach police shortly after the incident, Lucy recalled that she’d told Park she had no license. Park began “rubbing himself up against me,” she said. “Then, he said, ‘What are we going to do here, Lucy?’” Park unzipped his pants, took his penis out and got an erection, she explained. “Basically, the officer made me give [him] a freaking hand job and he let me go. I’m so freaked out about it.” (Lucy also told police, prosecutors and the jury that Park had also fingered her vagina and fondled her breasts before he ejaculated on her.) “I was confused,” she told the Laguna Beach dispatcher. “He called me afterwards. I’m scared, you know . . . What’s an Irvine cop doing hanging out at a strip club in Lake Forest?” Telephone records prove that Park made a 19-minute call to Lucy shortly after their encounter. The officer—who told the woman he was “Joe Stephens,” an Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputy who had died months earlier—said it was a friendly call to make sure she’d arrived home safely. The stripper said he told her to keep her mouth shut. And then Kamiabipour introduced the bombshell evidence from a high-ranking Irvine police officer: on the night Park tailed Lucy out of the city, the global positioning system in his patrol car had been disconnected without authorization. “I checked and [the GPS] was not working,” said Lt. Henry Boggs. An unexplainable coincidence, Park’s defense countered. * * * For all his boneheaded mistakes, Park madea sharp decision picking his legal counsel. Stokke (and John Barnett, Paul Myer and Jennifer Keller) is among the elite of the local defense bar. His fine suits and mastery of courtroom procedures compliment the folksy, grandfatherly style he uses to charm juries. And there was this unspoken advantage over the prosecution: longtime courthouse observers have no memory of an Orange County jury convicting a police officer of a felony. It wasn’t a surprise that Stokke put the woman and her part-time occupation on trial. In his opening argument, he made it The Good Cop versus The Slutty Stripper. He pointed out that she’d once had a violent fight with a boyfriend in San Diego. He mocked her inability to keep a driver’s license. He accused her of purposefully “weakening” Park so that he became “a man,” not a cop during the traffic stop. He called her a liar angling for easy lawsuit cash. He called her a whore without saying the word. “You dance around a pole, don’t you?” Stokke asked. Superior Court Judge William Evans ruled the question irrelevant. Stokke saw he was scoring points with the jury. “Do you place a pole between your legs and go up and down?” he asked. “No,” said Lucy before the judge interrupted. “You do the dancing to get men to do what you what them to do,” said Stokke. “And the same thing happened out there on that highway [in Laguna Beach]. You wanted [Park] to take some sex!” Lucy said, “No sir,” the sex wasn’t consensual. Stokke—usually a mellow fellow with a nasally, monotone voice—gripped his fists, stood upright, clenched his jaws and then thundered, “You had a buzz on [that night], didn’t you?” As if watching a volley in tennis, the heads of the male-dominated jury spun from Stokke back to Lucy, who sat in the witness box. She said no, but it was hopeless. Jurors stared at her without a hint of sympathy. In his closing argument, Stokke pounced. He called Lucy one of those “girls who have learned the art of the tease, getting what they want . . . they’ve learned to separate men from their money.” Kamiabipour wasn’t amused. “Dancer or not, sexually promiscuous nor not, she had the right not to consent,” she told jurors. “[Park] doesn’t get a freebie just because of who she is . . . He used her like an object.” "

2/11/2007 6:08:06 AM

Was this news article or some sort of commentary? Journalism sucks these days.

2/11/2007 6:44:41 AM

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

I guess he should have just raped her then, she probably wanted that too.

2/11/2007 7:31:25 AM

the is so crazy that he got off - those jurors should be executed

2/11/2007 8:06:53 AM

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"the is so crazy that he got off "

Pun intended?

2/11/2007 8:19:14 AM

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"Was this news article or some sort of commentary? Journalism sucks these days."

I dunno, I kind of like it . . . there is an obvious slant to the article that no one really tries to hide and it reads well. I've been of the mind that journalists should give up any pretensions of balance and write stories from an acknowledged point of view and let the public decide.


But on topic, she may be a dirty whore, but if she was, she was just doing her job . . . he wasn't doing his. From the view of this article, he was obviously choosing to put himself in this situation for the purpose of self gratification.

[Edited on February 11, 2007 at 8:24 AM. Reason : ^ lawls]

2/11/2007 8:23:42 AM

Well, this did happen in the OC,

home of some of the stupidest people on the planet.

So I'm not surprised that the mildly retarded jury would acquit.

2/11/2007 8:50:50 AM

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"finished her final shift at Captain Cream in Lake Forest"

Captain Cream...if that isn't an appropriate title for a Strip Club, I dont know what is (ironic as well)

2/11/2007 9:36:53 AM

well if things don't pan out for the duke boys i guess they know a good lawyer to call for their appeals

2/11/2007 11:13:38 AM

there's two distinct differences between the duke trial and this one

2/11/2007 11:20:46 AM

one has gone to trial and the other hasn't

2/11/2007 11:27:18 AM

this thread is bullshit


she said she jerked him off

2/11/2007 11:28:27 AM

because he forced her to

2/11/2007 11:35:30 AM

democracy and freedom for all!!!

viva la bush!!!

2/11/2007 12:19:26 PM

oh fuck you man, like this shit ONLY happens in the US


^^i was being facetious

2/11/2007 12:39:09 PM

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"Gets off completely"

so i see.

2/11/2007 1:13:48 PM

there was simply no way to get around the shitty puns with this one without it sounding like a thesaurus demonstration

2/11/2007 1:43:48 PM

perhaps she willingly engaged in the sexual favor. he should at least be punished for accepting a sexual favor, even if he didn't force her to jerk him off.

2/11/2007 1:44:21 PM

he shouldnt get off completely, but i certainly dont believe that he should be convicted of felonies especially over a coked out stripper who I believe enticed him into letting her go.

2/11/2007 1:49:15 PM

^I'm sorry, where was the part that said she was a "coked-out" stripper??
I guess you think she deserves it.

[Edited on February 11, 2007 at 1:55 PM. Reason : ugh]

2/11/2007 1:54:01 PM

either way, he'll probably be dismissed

2/11/2007 2:02:39 PM

^ already was dismissed. works construction now. RTFA. you'll see he was a stalker. even his colleagues and superiors thought he was a freak.

He was specifically warned to stay away from the strip club from previous infractions.

at any rate, the woman got a $400,000 settlement from teh city of Irvine.

I'm done caring now.

2/11/2007 2:29:56 PM

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"oh fuck you man, like this shit ONLY happens in the US"

oh noes. worse shot happens in other countries.

but the US is the country that most shoves into the face of the rest of the world how it cares about human rights and is the most humane, democratic, free, and loving country in the world.

2/11/2007 2:54:49 PM

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"For all his boneheaded mistakes, Park madea sharp decision picking his legal counsel. Stokke (and John Barnett, Paul Myer and Jennifer Keller) is among the elite of the local defense bar. His fine suits and mastery of courtroom procedures compliment the folksy, grandfatherly style he uses to charm juries. And there was this unspoken advantage over the prosecution: longtime courthouse observers have no memory of an Orange County jury convicting a police officer of a felony."

Matlock FTW!

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"^I'm sorry, where was the part that said she was a "coked-out" stripper?? I guess you think she deserves it."

You didn't read it. There had been an incident at the club she was working that night where she did some blow with another girl and they hooked up in a bathroom stall.

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"he shouldnt get off completely, but i certainly dont believe that he should be convicted of felonies especially over a coked out stripper who I believe enticed him into letting her go."

You didn't read it. This cop straight up stalked her. It's not like he pulled her over randomly and she was like, "Hey, baby, let's make this go away. You and me. " He ignored a superior's order to stay away from the strippers (apparently, he had an ongoing problem with this.) He had ran the plates of, like, ten other strippers working there. He turned off the GPS on his car, and he waited for her to leave the club and then followed her for almost ten minutes until he could pull her over on a more secluded part of the road that wasn't even in his jurisdiction. And then he demanded sexual favors from her and called her later to warn her against telling anybody about it. And it's not like she was in on this; she called the police after to tell them she'd been driving without a license and about what he had done to her.

2/11/2007 3:01:03 PM

ooooohhhh I thought that was a seperate incident . . my bad

2/11/2007 3:21:39 PM

am i really supposed to care about this?

2/11/2007 4:09:24 PM

i should have been a cop

2/11/2007 4:10:58 PM

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"US is the country that most shoves into the face of the rest of the world how it cares about human rights and is the most humane, democratic, free, and loving country in the world."

...

*sigh*

humane: hey, at least the cop didn't rape her

democratic: the jury had the choice to vote

free: hey she's a stripper doing blow, he's an asshole cop with an affinity for gettin his crank yanked on the time.

loving: nothing says "i love you" like a handjob and a lawsuit.


USA NUMBER ONE.

2/11/2007 4:14:36 PM

Imagine what would have happened to this woman if this happened in that democratic bastion of Saudi Arabia...

2/11/2007 4:15:51 PM

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"Stokke (and John Barnett, Paul Myer and Jennifer Keller) is among the elite of the local defense bar. His fine suits and mastery of courtroom procedures compliment the folksy, grandfatherly style he uses to charm juries."

[Edited on February 11, 2007 at 4:19 PM. Reason : .]

2/11/2007 4:19:34 PM

^^ you need to learn to read: but the US is the country that most shoves into the face of the rest of the world how it cares about human rights and is the most humane, democratic, free, and loving country in the world.

also, what you are saying is some sort of fallcy, maybe "let's be fucking irrelevant". stripping is legal in the US, while it is not in SA. that's not the point of this whole rant; the point is the cop goes free after all his transgressions.

no one is asking to change the laws here, so let's work within the legal framework. it is obvious he is guilty, but because he had a good lawyer, he goes free.

^^^ and after all the "humane", "democratic", "free", and "loving" actions and decisions, the oppressor still goes free.

USA NUMBER ONE.

2/11/2007 4:26:53 PM

And what would happen to this woman if this happened in Saudi Arabia?

2/11/2007 4:28:27 PM

surprising, a logical fallacy from the catholic.

2/11/2007 4:30:59 PM

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[Edited on February 11, 2007 at 4:41 PM. Reason : my penis gets hard when nutsmackr says logical fallacy]

2/11/2007 4:32:28 PM

^^ Imagine that, a sassy response from a queer.

2/11/2007 4:33:47 PM

Don't get saucy with me Bernice

2/11/2007 4:43:44 PM

that's fucked up

2/11/2007 5:35:27 PM

She was on a power trip and looking for a weak sucker so she could win a fat lawsuit.

2/11/2007 6:46:37 PM

[Edited on February 11, 2007 at 7:21 PM. Reason : bet he got the idea from^]

2/11/2007 7:16:23 PM

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"According to court records, there had been a small amount of cocaine, kissing and breast fondling."

That's my kind of stripper

2/11/2007 7:33:49 PM

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"She was on a power trip and looking for a weak sucker so she could win a fat lawsuit."

do you have reading skills beyond elementary school?

here is a summary, thanks to bridgetspk:

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"You didn't read it. This cop straight up stalked her. It's not like he pulled her over randomly and she was like, "Hey, baby, let's make this go away. You and me. " He ignored a superior's order to stay away from the strippers (apparently, he had an ongoing problem with this.) He had ran the plates of, like, ten other strippers working there. He turned off the GPS on his car, and he waited for her to leave the club and then followed her for almost ten minutes until he could pull her over on a more secluded part of the road that wasn't even in his jurisdiction. And then he demanded sexual favors from her and called her later to warn her against telling anybody about it. And it's not like she was in on this; she called the police after to tell them she'd been driving without a license and about what he had done to her."

2/11/2007 7:36:37 PM

one day...


the govt officials that take advantage of the people that pay their salaries will pay for their crimes

2/12/2007 10:02:45 AM

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"A jury of one woman and 11 men—many white and in their 50s or 60s"

sounds like the prosecution laid an egg during jury selection. 11 men, who would probably tend to side with the male, and 50/60 year olds are going to have a predisposition to think negatively of strippers.

2/12/2007 10:14:03 AM

that was a shitty shitty article

2/12/2007 10:38:02 AM

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"he’d ignored a plastic drug baggie he’d found in her car and her suspended license"

2/12/2007 10:47:18 AM

So that's how Republican18 lost his virginity...

2/12/2007 12:59:12 PM

^ I LOL'd

2/12/2007 1:10:06 PM

sounds like both parties won in this case.

She didn't go to jail & he didn't go to jail


All is well.

2/12/2007 1:14:32 PM

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"And what would happen to this woman if this happened in Saudi Arabia?"

You know damn well she would have been sentenced to death...probably by stoning.

2/12/2007 1:18:08 PM

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" sounds like both parties she won in this case. She didn't go to jail got a $400,000 civil award from the city & he is working a dickhead construction job, will never work as a cop again, and is damn lucky that he didn't go to jail All is well. "

2/12/2007 1:33:25 PM