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10-03-2020, 06:31 PM #11UnregisteredGuest
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10-03-2020, 06:34 PM #12UnregisteredGuest
Look at yourself libtard. Let's defund the police but make them available when your the one being "victimized". Let's do away with prisons yet keep them to jail cops and anyone that doesn't agree with the libtards. Lets start our own "chaz" but we'll delegate armed guards aka police and make our own laws.
Are you mad because Trump didn't let Biden speak? It's okay little butterfly. Fly away.
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10-03-2020, 06:36 PM #13UnregisteredGuest
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10-03-2020, 06:38 PM #14UnregisteredGuest
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10-04-2020, 01:17 AM #15
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10-04-2020, 01:21 AM #16UnregisteredGuest
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10-04-2020, 06:39 AM #17UnregisteredGuest
Did Kenneth Post receive justice? Was there a rush to judgement to clear the FLPD?
Cynthia G. Imperato
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Prior offices
Florida 17th Circuit Court
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Education
Bachelor's
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1979
Graduate
Florida State University, 1980
Law
Florida State University College of Law, 1988
Cynthia G. Imperato is a former judge of the 17th Judicial Circuit Court (Eleventh Division of the Circuit Civil Division) in Florida. She was appointed to the court by former Governor Jeb Bush (R) in January 2003 to replace retired Judge Estella May Moriarty. Imperato ran unopposed and was retained in the primary on August 24, 2010.[1][2][3][4]
Imperato was charged with judicial misconduct stemming from a DUI arrest that occurred in November 2013. The Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission recommended a 90-day suspension and a $20,000 fine. Imperato was awaiting a final ruling by the Florida Supreme Court when she announced that she would resign from the court on February 29, 2016. Read more below.
Education
Imperato received her B.S. in psychology and sociology from Virginia Tech in 1979 and her M.S. in criminology from Florida State University in 1980. She was awarded a J.D. from the Florida State University School of Law in 1988.[5][6]
Career
2003-2016: Circuit judge, 17th Judicial Circuit Court
1990-2003: Senior assistant statewide prosecutor, Office of Statewide Prosecution
1989-1990: Senior attorney, Florida Department of Professional Regulation
1988-1989: Legislative analyst, Florida Senate
1988-1989: Attorney, Florida State Hospital
1981-1990: Police officer, Tallahassee Police Department[5]
Was there a conflict?
Recuseof a judge) excuse oneself from a case because of a potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
3 Fort Lauderdale Cops Acquitted In Chase & Crash Case
By Joan MurrayFebruary 13, 2013 at 6:00 pm
FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – Three Fort Lauderdale police officers accused of lying to investigators about a car chase and crash have been cleared of all criminal charges.
Judge Cynthia Imperato acquitted all three officers in court Wednesday, just one day after the jury deadlocked on most of the charges.
“The state cherry picked the evidence,” said Sgt. Jack Lokeinsky, president of the Fort Lauderdale Fraternal Order of Police. “They did not include any evidence that shed a good light on the officers. The judge, I appreciate her efforts and she listened to the entire case and she realized that charges should never have been filed.”
On Tuesday, jurors acquitted Detectives Matthew Moceri and Geoffrey Shaffer on charges of official misconduct. However, the jury deadlocked on the charges of falsifying reports. The jury was also hung on all counts for Sgt. Michael Florenco.
But Wednesday, the judge acquitted all three.
The case dates back to 2009 when the officers responded to an incident at the Fort Lauderdale Hilton Marina.
Kenneth Post was caught on surveillance video stealing liquor from the Tiki Bar and then backing out of the parking lot and clipping security in a golf cart.
He fled and the three officers were involved in a pursuit.
During the chase, the front of their unmarked car was smashed.
They claimed that Post was responsible but a crash expert hired by the police department determined that the officers had wrecked the car elsewhere. Prosecutors claimed they lied to cover up the accident.
The mother of Kenneth Post who has fought tirelessly for him expressed dismay at what Judge Imperato did.
“I was flabberghasted, disappointed, I cried,” said Marian Post. “I just couldn’t believe she did not let a jury decide. It’s not fair. I have no trust in the court system anymore.”
With the judge’s decision, the union will immediately seek to have the officers reinstated to their jobs. They have been suspended without pay since their arrest late last May.
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10-04-2020, 11:00 AM #18UnregisteredGuest
Yo that Moceri cop is a reckless man and needs to be stripped of his badge asap
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10-04-2020, 04:16 PM #19UnregisteredGuest
Lack of honesty & integrity?
Two cops accused of stealing, kidnapping, lying in drug case
By Paula McMahon
Posted Oct 26, 2011 at 12:01 AM
Updated Oct 26, 2011 at 11:24 AM
At least two Fort Lauderdale police officers accused of stealing cash from pain clinic clients, kidnapping a man and lying about cases are expected to be criminally charged next week, sources say.
Detectives Billy Koepke and Brian Dodge, of the department’s Street Crimes Unit, have been under investigation for several months. The probe began with a hotel security video that contradicted the officers’ accounts of two arrests they made at a Red Roof Inn in Oakland Park.
Investigators from a police corruption task force now believe that Koepke and Dodge went after drug buyers and sellers, claimed they found cocaine on one person who had none, and stole several thousand dollars in cash that should have been placed in evidence, according to five sources.
Koepke, 32, and Dodge, 30, have been “relieved from duty with pay” since April 18, police department officials said.
A third suspended detective, Matthew Moceri, 28, is still under investigation, his lawyer confirmed. A sergeant in the unit, Michael Florenco, 34, was cleared of criminal misconduct by prosecutors this month, but the police department has not yet allowed him to return to duty, the sources said.
Koepke and Dodge are paid $75,878 a year, Moceri’s salary is $71,406, and Florenco’s is $88,732.
All four officers were at the Oakland Park hotel on Aug. 24, 2010, when two suspects were arrested on charges of possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute.
An arrest form obtained by the Sun Sentinel shows that Koepke and Dodge said they had arrested a driver and passenger after they saw them dropping crack cocaine on the floor of their vehicle in the hotel parking lot. The officers wrote that the two suspects came to the lot to deliver drugs to the officers’ “informational source.”
But when investigators reviewed video footage from the hotel’s lobby and parking area, they found that the so-called “passenger” was not even in the vehicle and had been arrested in the lobby, several sources said. The video contradicted the officers’ written reports as well as a sworn statement that Dodge gave about the arrest, the sources said.
Prosecutors later dropped the criminal charges against both men. Meanwhile, the police corruption task force, comprised of Fort Lauderdale police, FBI agents and the Broward State Attorney’s Office, went to work.
Dodge’s lawyer, Mike Dutko, said on Tuesday he had been hearing for months that his client was about to be arrested.
“Based on my knowledge and insight into this investigation, I am unaware of any basis for these serious charges,” Dutko said. He said he understands that there is a discrepancy between the police report and the video about where one of the suspects was arrested.
Dutko said he knows there are “alleged inconsistencies between the Red Roof Inn police report and the videotape, but it’s not an inconsistency that can’t be explained ... A mistake is not tantamount to [a] false statement.”
Reached by phone Tuesday, Koepke said he could not comment but that there are two sides to every story. “You’ll have to contact my lawyer,” he said.
Koepke’s attorney, James Stark, could not be reached for comment despite phone messages left with his assistant.
Efforts to contact the other three officers on Tuesday were unsuccessful.
Moceri’s lawyer, Anthony Livoti Jr., said, “I can’t talk to you about an ongoing criminal investigation but after a complete and thorough investigation by the State Attorney’s Office, Officer Moceri will be vindicated.” Livoti said Moceri is a Marine Corps veteran who investigates “pill mills.”
“This is difficult [work] and these guys are placed in difficult situations,” Livoti said. “Things move very quickly in these situations.”
Florenco’s lawyer, Howard Greitzer, said he could not comment.
Koepke and Dodge are expected to be charged with racketeering, kidnapping, false imprisonment, grand theft and official misconduct. Police internal affairs investigators are also looking at whether departmental rules were violated.
The sources said that a third man, who informed police about the two suspects at the hotel, was not arrested but was handcuffed and held against his will for several hours.
Moceri and Florenco were at the scene of the arrest but they did not file reports.
Florenco came under investigation because his initials and police identification number were written on some of the reports. However, he gave a sworn statement that he never initialed or signed off on the police records and the sources said investigators were satisfied it was not his handwriting.
“Due to the fact that it is an ongoing investigation by the State Attorney’s Office, we cannot comment on the case as we do not want to jeopardize their investigation,” Detective Travis Mandell, Fort Lauderdale police spokesman, said on Tuesday.
Tim Donnelly, the chief of the Broward State Attorney’s special prosecutions unit, declined to comment on the case Tuesday.
Defense attorney Carter Hilstrom, who represented the suspects charged at the hotel, also said he could not discuss the matter because he believed it was still an active federal investigation.
Koepke joined Fort Lauderdale police about six years ago, Dodge is an 11-year veteran, Moceri came to the department in 2005 and Florenco has worked there since 1999.
Sun Sentinel staff researcher Barbara Hijek contributed to this report
Mike Dutko bio:
Overview. Michael Dutko's experience includes service as a Fort Lauderdale Police officer and as an organized crime detective. He also served as an assistant state attorney. ... Dutko has again been recognized as one of America's preeminent attorneys by Best Lawyers and U.S. News & World Report.
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10-04-2020, 09:22 PM #20UnregisteredGuest
Imperato was convicted and sentenced to 20 days of house arrest and a year of probation. According to court records, this was Imperato's second DUI charge. In 1988, she was convicted of driving under the influence, involving property damage or personal injury in Leon County.
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