phill4paul
01-15-2014, 03:00 PM
The DA of course screwed up the initial trial then dragged their feet so that there wasn't a retrial.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/feds-charge-allegedly-forced-woman-strip-pleasured-article-1.1496248
Feds file civil rights charge against Philadelphia cop who allegedly forced woman to strip, pleasured himself on her
FBI agents also arrested one of ex-cop Joseph Harvey's old co-workers, Officer Sean Cahill, and charged him with lying to officials about what happened during the incident.
In 2009, after Philadelphia cops raided an abandoned home in the Kensington neighborhood, a 21-year-old woman came forward and accused Harvey of forcing her to strip and then pleasuring himself in her presence.
The young woman testified in 2011 that she was in a second-floor bedroom, high on heroin and preparing to have sex with a friend, when Harvey charged into the room as part of the police contingent, according to the Inquirer. After he was finished pleasuring himself, she said, he tossed $6 at her and told her to use the money to buy a pack of smokes.
The investigation that followed the woman’s complaint yielded what may have been an important piece of physical evidence — semen found on the woman’s sweatpants that was linked through DNA testing to Harvey, according to The Inquirer.
At trial, however, a prosecutor made reference to the sweatpants, but they had not been introduced as evidence, leading a judge to declare a mistrial, The Inquirer reported. The judge then reversed that decision.
But prosecutors later failed to bring their case against Harvey during a seven-month window provided by law. Last year, Common Pleas Court Judge Barbara A. McDermott dismissed the case, and ripped into prosecutors for dragging feet despite the existence of “an extensive investigation resulting in solid physical evidence.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/feds-charge-allegedly-forced-woman-strip-pleasured-article-1.1496248
Feds file civil rights charge against Philadelphia cop who allegedly forced woman to strip, pleasured himself on her
FBI agents also arrested one of ex-cop Joseph Harvey's old co-workers, Officer Sean Cahill, and charged him with lying to officials about what happened during the incident.
In 2009, after Philadelphia cops raided an abandoned home in the Kensington neighborhood, a 21-year-old woman came forward and accused Harvey of forcing her to strip and then pleasuring himself in her presence.
The young woman testified in 2011 that she was in a second-floor bedroom, high on heroin and preparing to have sex with a friend, when Harvey charged into the room as part of the police contingent, according to the Inquirer. After he was finished pleasuring himself, she said, he tossed $6 at her and told her to use the money to buy a pack of smokes.
The investigation that followed the woman’s complaint yielded what may have been an important piece of physical evidence — semen found on the woman’s sweatpants that was linked through DNA testing to Harvey, according to The Inquirer.
At trial, however, a prosecutor made reference to the sweatpants, but they had not been introduced as evidence, leading a judge to declare a mistrial, The Inquirer reported. The judge then reversed that decision.
But prosecutors later failed to bring their case against Harvey during a seven-month window provided by law. Last year, Common Pleas Court Judge Barbara A. McDermott dismissed the case, and ripped into prosecutors for dragging feet despite the existence of “an extensive investigation resulting in solid physical evidence.”