Posted on 04/22/2010 3:12:23 PM PDT by trapped_in_LA
An Allegheny County judge Tuesday acquitted a former Pittsburgh police sergeant of an assault charge.
Eugene Hlavac, 43, slumped in his courtroom chair, and a supporter seated behind him clapped when Common Pleas Judge Thomas Flaherty announced the verdict that ended a two-day, non-jury trail.
"I've asserted that I always have been an innocent man. I am an innocent man," Hlavac said outside the courtroom. "I can't understand how there's any way I will ever, ever regain my reputation, in spite of the fact that I'm completely innocent."
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Feminazis.
I'm not advocating men beat their women, but the standard of proof for domestic violence claims has become so low, it's become the go-to offense of angry women. Sorry if that offends any of our female Freepers, but that's the fact.
The courts are so hyper-sensitive to claims of DV, it's very hard for men of modest means to mount a successful defense. I'm glad this guy did.
He says he only raised his arms in self-defense. She required surgery and he was unharmed.
He told the hospital that she fell down the stairs.
Does this guy lie while on the job too?
In an assault case, it doesn't necessarily matter who was injured, but who was the aggressor. The judge, when weighing eye-witness testimony, found the complaining witness to be the aggressor, not the defendant.
"He told the hospital that she fell down the stairs."
Thankfully, there's no law against lying to the hospital. If he had proffered fallacious statements to authorities, I'd have a problem with that. But he didn't.
As someone who was intimately familiar with DV law, I'm sure he knew that had he try to explain what really happened, the hospital would have alerted social services (as they're probably required to do by law) and in turn, the SS would have alerted police.
With Barack Obama in office, there's no telling how long the Constitution will survive, but so far, we still have a 5th Amendment right. He's under no obligation to say anything truthful to the hospital.
I wonder if he lies on the job.
Just because he refuses to make statements that could easily be twisted into something incriminating, you immediately presume that he lies on the job?
Interesting. You must not think it's a very short putt from protecting your Constitutional rights in a hospital, to lying under oath. I don't.
By the way, cops can and do lie to suspects on the job ALL the time, and the Supreme Court has held in various cases that it's perfectly legal. In an interrogation room, it's the interrogator that frequently is spouting more BS, than the suspect.
Of all people ... cops know what to say and what not, when and to whom.
Read the article again. She also told the hospital she fell down some stairs. Is she lying too?
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