lord_casek Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 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.” http://www.ocweekly.com/news/news/illegally-park-ed/26661/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 god damn sluts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Of course she wanted it, she wouldn't have been outside if she didn't want it... she was SPEEDING, DUH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papa_dukes Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 haha this is some bizarre shiz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
correct Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 I would be thoroughly pissed if a cop blew a load on me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 up here in northern california...they made a big deal about this....apparently some chick was driving home through kyburz....south of tahoe and she was stopped by chp....she offered the cop to suck his wang to get out of the ticket.....so the cop agreed...then he let her go...she later told a friend what happened....and the friend went and reported it to the chp......anyways....i think its a victimless crime....and if i was a cop (thank god im not)....i would have my dick in so many female mouths....i wouldnt have time to catch criminals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spectr Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 haha that shit is fucking hilarious.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted February 10, 2007 Author Share Posted February 10, 2007 Of course she wanted it, she wouldn't have been outside if she didn't want it... she was SPEEDING, DUH! annnnd she is a stripper. she wanted it. gah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauler5150 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Haha, she got what was coming to her!! Finally some redemption for these women who extort men for money!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted February 10, 2007 Author Share Posted February 10, 2007 Haha, she got what was coumming on her!! Finally some redemption for these women who extort men for money!!! edit for spelling ^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B_As_In_Bot Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 pahahahahaha.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxcarrapist Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 well self respect is outta her reach forever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qawee Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 flicks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohnoone Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gooch Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 "are you a doubter?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Smite Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Haha, she got what was coming to her!! Finally some redemption for these women who extort men for money!!! Uh...did you not read it? They gave her $400,000. I thought it was real fucked up until I read that she gave him a handy and let dude finger her, she played that fool. Fuck it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Huxtable. Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 i thought this was gonna be another anna nicole smith thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_habiT Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 FUCKIN WHORRRRRRRRRRRRRE serves the bitch right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Feast Island Man Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 he should've got done for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUR X3 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madsencarl Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 grr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLT Sammich Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 its a good thing strippers dont have feelings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeBee Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Dudes definately goin for anal next time he pulls a bitch over...might as well with all this stress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X22 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 thats funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earmuffs Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 what a slut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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