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No one disputes that an on-duty Irvine police officer got an erection and ejaculated on a motorist during an early-morning traffic stop in Laguna Beach. The female driver reported it, DNA testing confirmed it and officer David Alex Park finally admitted it.

When the case went to trial, however, defense attorney Al Stokke argued that Park wasn’t responsible for making sticky all over the woman’s sweater. He insisted that she made the married patrolman make the mess—after all, she was on her way home from work as a dancer at Captain Cream Cabaret.

“She got what she wanted,” said Stokke. “She’s an overtly sexual person.”

A jury of one woman and 11 men—many white and in their 50s or 60s—agreed with Stokke. On Feb. 2, after a half-day of deliberations, they found Park not guilty of three felony charges that he’d used his badge to win sexual favors during the December 2004 traffic stop.

Park, 31, was red-faced and unable to control his twitching foot in the moments before the verdict was announced; if convicted, he would have faced prison. When he was found not guilty, he briefly embraced Stokke. In the public seating section, tears flowed from his gray-haired mother’s face. His father, a mechanic, closed his eyes and threw his head back. Outside the courtroom, surrounded by his family, a smiling Park said he felt vindicated.

Veteran sex crimes prosecutor Shaddi Kamiabipour—who’d called Park “a predator” during the nine-day trial—said she was disappointed with the verdicts. She also dismissed Stokke’s contention that the Orange County District Attorney’s office had overcharged the case. At stake, Kamiabipour said, was the principle that no one—not even a horny cop who’d once won honors for community service—is above the law.

“Park didn’t pick a housewife or a 17-year-old girl,” Kamiabipour said in her closing argument. “He picked a stripper. He picked the perfect victim.”



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In the wee hours of Dec. 15, 2004, Lucy (only her first name was used during the trial) finished her final shift at Captain Cream in Lake Forest, not far from the Irvine Spectrum. Management had let her go after an incident involving a female customer in a bathroom stall. According to court records, there had been a small amount of cocaine, kissing and breast fondling.

Meanwhile, Park was on patrol in the southwest portion of Irvine. Prosecutors believe he was craving a sexual rendezvous, and so he watched for Lucy’s white BMW to leave the strip club parking lot, then tailed her, waiting for an excuse for a stop. Park insisted he’d been cruising on the 405 north and coincidentally saw Lucy’s vehicle weave and speed.

Kamiabipour, the prosecutor, shook her head in disbelief. She knew the facts—that the officer had waited at least eight or nine minutes before stopping the stripper on a secluded section of a highway that was out of his jurisdiction.

“He was stalking her,” she said.

Four months earlier, Park had stopped Lucy under similar circumstances. That time, he’d ignored a plastic drug baggie he’d found in her car and her suspended license. But the stop wasn’t a waste of time. After friendly chit-chat, the officer had scored Lucy’s phone number. Telephone records show that Park called the stripper the next morning. She told him she was too busy to meet.

On the witness stand, Park explained that he’d called Lucy out of concern for a citizen’s safety. He also shrugged his shoulders when Kamiabipour slowly listed the first names of nine Captain Cream female employees—Annette, Denise, Rashele, Marlia, Brandi, Andrea, Deborah, Laura and Shannon—whose license plates he’d run through the DMV computer in the weeks prior to his sexual encounter with Lucy. (Another coincidence, according to Stokke.) Jurors also learned that Irvine Police Sgt. Michael Hallinan had previously warned Park as they left work to stay away from the strippers.

Park, who works in construction nowadays, conceded that he’d been given the warning but claimed that he had no clue it was Lucy in the vehicle or that she had an invalid driver’s license, even as he approached her car window.

Kamiabipour believed she’d caught the 6-foot-3 cop in a lie. Records show he ran the bosomy, 5-foot, 110-pound dancer’s license plate before the stop, did not call for backup despite the potential for an arrest and failed to tell his supervisor or dispatch that he was leaving Irvine. Several Irvine officers testified that Park’s behavior that night was odd.

“[Park’s] testimony was just incredible,” said Kamiabipour. Irvine city officials must have doubted his story, too. After an exhaustive police internal affairs investigation, they felt it was prudent to give Lucy $400,000 to make her civil lawsuit go away—for fear a jury might give her much more.

In a secretly-recorded phone call to Laguna Beach police shortly after the incident, Lucy recalled that she’d told Park she had no license. Park began “rubbing himself up against me,” she said. “Then, he said, ‘What are we going to do here, Lucy?’”

Park unzipped his pants, took his penis out and got an erection, she explained. “Basically, the officer made me give [him] a freaking hand job and he let me go. I’m so freaked out about it.”

(Lucy also told police, prosecutors and the jury that Park had also fingered her vagina and fondled her breasts before he ejaculated on her.)

“I was confused,” she told the Laguna Beach dispatcher. “He called me afterwards. I’m scared, you know . . . What’s an Irvine cop doing hanging out at a strip club in Lake Forest?”

Telephone records prove that Park made a 19-minute call to Lucy shortly after their encounter. The officer—who told the woman he was “Joe Stephens,” an Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputy who had died months earlier—said it was a friendly call to make sure she’d arrived home safely. The stripper said he told her to keep her mouth shut.

And then Kamiabipour introduced the bombshell evidence from a high-ranking Irvine police officer: on the night Park tailed Lucy out of the city, the global positioning system in his patrol car had been disconnected without authorization.

“I checked and [the GPS] was not working,” said Lt. Henry Boggs.

An unexplainable coincidence, Park’s defense countered.



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For all his boneheaded mistakes, Park madea sharp decision picking his legal counsel. Stokke (and John Barnett, Paul Myer and Jennifer Keller) is among the elite of the local defense bar. His fine suits and mastery of courtroom procedures compliment the folksy, grandfatherly style he uses to charm juries. And there was this unspoken advantage over the prosecution: longtime courthouse observers have no memory of an Orange County jury convicting a police officer of a felony.

It wasn’t a surprise that Stokke put the woman and her part-time occupation on trial. In his opening argument, he made it The Good Cop versus The Slutty Stripper. He pointed out that she’d once had a violent fight with a boyfriend in San Diego. He mocked her inability to keep a driver’s license. He accused her of purposefully “weakening” Park so that he became “a man,” not a cop during the traffic stop. He called her a liar angling for easy lawsuit cash. He called her a whore without saying the word.

“You dance around a pole, don’t you?” Stokke asked.

Superior Court Judge William Evans ruled the question irrelevant.

Stokke saw he was scoring points with the jury.

“Do you place a pole between your legs and go up and down?” he asked.

“No,” said Lucy before the judge interrupted.

“You do the dancing to get men to do what you what them to do,” said Stokke. “And the same thing happened out there on that highway [in Laguna Beach]. You wanted [Park] to take some sex!”

Lucy said, “No sir,” the sex wasn’t consensual. Stokke—usually a mellow fellow with a nasally, monotone voice—gripped his fists, stood upright, clenched his jaws and then thundered, “You had a buzz on [that night], didn’t you?”

As if watching a volley in tennis, the heads of the male-dominated jury spun from Stokke back to Lucy, who sat in the witness box. She said no, but it was hopeless. Jurors stared at her without a hint of sympathy.

In his closing argument, Stokke pounced. He called Lucy one of those “girls who have learned the art of the tease, getting what they want . . . they’ve learned to separate men from their money.”

Kamiabipour wasn’t amused. “Dancer or not, sexually promiscuous nor not, she had the right not to consent,” she told jurors. “[Park] doesn’t get a freebie just because of who she is . . . He used her like an object.”



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One of the worst voir dire's ever?

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Irvine holla.

[censored] I hate Irvine PD so bad.

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The ejaculating thing has been done before by the Bad Lieutenant

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images...ieutenant2.jpg

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Ahahahahahhahaha it's at Captain Cream. I work right next to there. Holy [censored] this story is awesome, except when I saw "David Park" I was hoping he'd be some creepy Korean dude.

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Ahahahahahhahaha it's at Captain Cream. I work right next to there. Holy [censored] this story is awesome, except when I saw "David Park" I was hoping he'd be some creepy Korean dude.

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Can you briefly describe "Captain Cream Cabaret?"

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shaniac,

Unforunately I've never been a patron of Captain Cream, but my coworkers say that their lunch buffet has hot dogs and booby. I think they might be topless only. I can confirm that some of these girls are hot though since I occasionally see them walking towards there when I'm getting tasty bbq takeout for lunch.

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When the case went to trial, however, defense attorney Al Stokke argued that Park wasn’t responsible for making sticky all over the woman’s sweater.

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Hahaha this is fantastic.

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This Stokke guy convinced me. He lawyers good.

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Standard.

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there's a special place in hell for lawyers like this stokke guy... it involves a bunch of sexual predators ejaculating on his family while he watches helplessly.

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who knows the real story guys? she's a stripper right? maybe she offered to blow him to get out of a ticket?

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who knows the real story guys? she's a stripper right? maybe she offered to blow him to get out of a ticket?

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sarcasm?

riiiight which is why he turned off his GPS system, pulled her over before to get her phone number, ran the license plates of a bunch of other strippers while at work, got warned by his boss about tailing strippers, pulled her over in a secluded area outside of his jurisdiction and then called her after the fact!

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This Stokke guy convinced me. He lawyers good.

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When I see a solar eclipse, like the one I went to last year in Hawaii, I think 'Oh no! Is the moon eating the sun?' I don't know. I'm a simple caveman - that's just the way I think. But, there is one thing I do know, and that is my client is innocent of these clearly defamatory charges.

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Seriously, if I get nabbed for a felony I am calling Stokke and paying his expenses to come to Virginia and defend me.

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who knows the real story guys? she's a stripper right? maybe she offered to blow him to get out of a ticket?

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sarcasm?

riiiight which is why he turned off his GPS system, pulled her over before to get her phone number, ran the license plates of a bunch of other strippers while at work, got warned by his boss about tailing strippers, pulled her over in a secluded area outside of his jurisdiction and then called her after the fact!

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doesn't mean she didn't offer to blow him or similiar but it does look bad for him. surprised he got off.

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who knows the real story guys? she's a stripper right? maybe she offered to blow him to get out of a ticket?

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sarcasm?

riiiight which is why he turned off his GPS system, pulled her over before to get her phone number, ran the license plates of a bunch of other strippers while at work, got warned by his boss about tailing strippers, pulled her over in a secluded area outside of his jurisdiction and then called her after the fact!

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doesn't mean she didn't offer to blow him or similiar but it does look bad for him. surprised he got off Twice .

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Cannot...resist...FYP

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Seriously, if I get nabbed for a felony I am calling Stokke and paying his expenses to come to Virginia and defend me.

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given this guy is no longer around, seems like a good bet

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Seriously, if I get nabbed for a felony I am calling Stokke and paying his expenses to come to Virginia and defend me.

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This will not work unless you are a cop.

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i dunno, i didn't read all of the details, too long

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who knows the real story guys? she's a stripper right? maybe she offered to blow him to get out of a ticket?

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sarcasm?

riiiight which is why he turned off his GPS system, pulled her over before to get her phone number, ran the license plates of a bunch of other strippers while at work, got warned by his boss about tailing strippers, pulled her over in a secluded area outside of his jurisdiction and then called her after the fact!

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doesn't mean she didn't offer to blow him or similiar but it does look bad for him. surprised he got off.

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A jury of one woman and 11 men

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Jury selection, FTW.

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there's a special place in hell for lawyers like this stokke guy... it involves a bunch of sexual predators ejaculating on his family while he watches helplessly.

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Why blame him? If the case against the defendant is as strong as you think, then stokke is the only guy who did his job. Condemn the prosecutor or jury.

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The ejaculating thing has been done before by the Bad Lieutenant

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images...ieutenant2.jpg

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Best yelling ever in a movie, even surpassing total recall.

As for the verdict gg sexually repressed America. Apparently they believe this wicked woman took advantage of this poor stalking cop.

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The stripper got 400K and the cop's reputation is ruined. Let's not feel too bad.

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The stripper got 400K and the cop's reputation is ruined. Let's not feel too bad.

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Not too worried about the stripper, 400k will hopefully be enough to treat her handjob induced post traumatic stress disorder [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] However, that Cop should never be in a position of power again -- it may turn out that he will never be, but jail + a felony would pretty much guarantee that.

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Wow, this is insane. Nice job jury.

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A cop does something obviously wrong and everyone rushes to protect him and he gets away with it. I think I've heard this one too many times. It really sickens me.

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who knows the real story guys? she's a stripper right? maybe she offered to blow him to get out of a ticket?

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Yeah, because that would be legal and TOTALLY within his jurisdiction, right?

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Sweet, a cop essentially rapes a woman, then gets away with it. These are the things I think of when I hear of police brutality and know we don' t even see the tip of the iceberg about this stuff.

What are the chances something a cop in LA could commit a blatant felony or 3 with evidence galore and get away with it?


P.S. I wonder if he will get charged with violating her civil rights like the POS's that beat up Rodney King. Least that got a few of them some prison time.

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You can pretty much do whatever you want to a stripper or a black crack addict in this country and the (white male) jury will assume they "asked for it" or "had it coming".

edit : I bet you get free hits on illegal immigrants these days too.

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You can pretty much do whatever you want to a stripper or a black crack addict in this country and the (white male) jury will assume they "asked for it" or "had it coming".

edit : I bet you get free hits on illegal immigrants these days too.


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God Bless America. Now please excuse me, i'm out to go make sticky on some strippers.

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The cop sounds kind of slimey. But I don't feel sympathy for the stripper. Boo urns, a "forced handjob" and she gets $400,000. wow, what a deal. I would given a handjob for $400,000

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His father, a mechanic, closed his eyes and threw his head back.

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Obviously wishing he'd been the one performing the traffic stop.

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The cop sounds kind of slimey. But I don't feel sympathy for the stripper. Boo urns, a "forced handjob" and she gets $400,000. wow, what a deal. I would given a handjob for $400,000

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See kids. Sexual assault and abuse of power is okay as long as you have (other people's) money to throw away!

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The ejaculating thing has been done before by the Bad Lieutenant

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images...ieutenant2.jpg

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that's an awesome movie

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who knows the real story guys? she's a stripper right? maybe she offered to blow him to get out of a ticket?

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sarcasm?

riiiight which is why he turned off his GPS system, pulled her over before to get her phone number, ran the license plates of a bunch of other strippers while at work, got warned by his boss about tailing strippers, pulled her over in a secluded area outside of his jurisdiction and then called her after the fact!

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sounds to me like the defense won this case when he got his jury of 11 men and 1 woman. the evidence in this case clearly slows guilt.

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Whos $400,000 was that anyway? The cops family's monies or tax payers?

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Irvine city officials must have doubted his story, too. After an exhaustive police internal affairs investigation, they felt it was prudent to give Lucy $400,000 to make her civil lawsuit go away

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taxpayers

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Maybe they were both in on it to get a score from the taxpayers. Except that lawyer must have cost quite a bit and if she settled on 400k, she would have only gotten 266k or so after fees.

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LOL, a handjob from a sex worker. He totally raped her.