and more double standards of law enforcement

[SmarterthanYou]

cop admits to rape and coercion in court

judge gives harsh sentence of probation

Philip Emanuele, the former Eatontown detective accused of raping an informant, sat hunched over and sobbing in a chair in a Monmouth County courtroom on Friday morning.

Emanuele, 33, a married father from Brick, was being sentenced by Judge Thomas F. Scully under a plea agreement he accepted in October by admitting to criminal coercion and tampering with evidence.

Behind him, there were more tears.

On one side of the room were his friends and family, including his wife, who was sitting next to him and rubbing his back before his name was called.

On the other side of the room was Emanuele’s victim, a 24-year-old woman who struggled to speak through tears of her own as she explained to the court, in graphic detail, her claim of how Emanuele used the threat of prison for a theft charge she had pending to take advantage of her.

This culminated with an incident inside a van in a church parking lot, where she alleged Emanuele raped her after she refused to perform oral sex on him.

The victim said she later reported the incident, turned over her semen-stained jeans to police and cooperated on a call to Emanuele – which was listened in on by investigators – where she said he repeatedly told her “I thought you wanted it.”

can we hear the chorus of 'isolated incidents' and other terms of bullshit from the police apologists?

and to further show you the extent of 'us v. them' mentality by 'justice' (sic) system......

a quote from Emanuele’s attorney Patrick Toscano in the media, in which she said Toscano called the incident a “10-minute lapse of judgment” and implied that he was not convinced that Emanuele was not the victim in this case.

Before sentencing Emanuele, Scully gave him an opportunity to speak on his own behalf.

Through a barely audible whimper, the former police officer acknowledged what he had done and said he wanted to go on with his life.

While Scully said that he was not completely convinced that Emanuele would not commit a similar crime in the future, especially after hearing the victim’s detailed testimony, he said he was confident that the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office investigated the case thoroughly and honored the plea agreement, which he called “fair in the interest of justice.”

But Scully did make Emanuele raise his head and look at him as he lectured him about what he called “outrageous conduct and utterly hideous actions.”

“You are not going to jail, as we traditionally know the concept of jail, today. But with many respects, given what your childhood dream was, you’re going to be in jail the rest of your life,” Scully said. “You’re going to have to live with this the rest of your life.”

Scully then sentenced Emanuele to five years of probation for the third-degree criminal coercion charge and three years of probation for the fourth-degree tampering with evidence charge, which will run concurrently.