Ex-NYPD detectives to get probation for sex in police van
Posted Aug 29, 2019 01:43:38 PM.
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NEW YORK — A judge says he’s choosing probation over jail for two ex-New York City detectives accused of having sex in a police van with an 18-year-old woman they arrested.
Eddie Martins and Richard Hall pleaded guilty Thursday to official misconduct and other charges stemming from the September 2017 encounter.
Judge Danny Chun said he’ll sentence the men in October to five years of probation. Prosecutors wanted them jailed for at least a year.
The Brooklyn district attorney’s office dropped kidnapping and rape charges against Martins and Hall in March, citing “serious credibility issues.”
A since-closed loophole in state law allowed police to escape sexual assault charges by claiming sex acts were consensual.
Martins and Hall resigned in November 2017 before facing an administrative proceeding that could have resulted in their firing.
The Associated Press
