Pedophile California Highway Patrol Cop Loses Federal Appeal
 |
| Do you know why I pulled you over, little girl? |
But Deck ended up nabbed in a 2006 Perverted Justice sting orchestrated with undercover officers at the Laguna Beach Police Department.
In 2009, an Orange County jury convicted him of committing attempted lewd acts on a 13-year-old, the Internet chat room apple of his eye that turned out to be a decoy.
Superior Court Judge M. Marc Kelly, a former prosecutor, ignored Deck's steadfast refusal to accept responsibility and gave him a sentence of five years of probation after declaring in open court that dirty cops deserve easier punishments than other citizens who've committed crimes.
Deck appealed his conviction to a California Court of Appeal based in Santa Ana and lost.
He asked the California Supreme Court to consider overturning his case and they refused to even entertain his complaint.
He then appealed to federal judges, arguing that his constitutional rights were violated because prosecutor Robert Mestman misstated the law during his closing arguments to the jury.
This week, U.S. District Court Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald
closed the complaint after accepting a magistrate judge's detailed
report that Deck, who retired claiming on-the-job injuries is now living in San Diego County, was convicted
righteously by Mestman's "overwhelming" evidence.
According
to court records, Deck had an obsession with "daughter-daddy" sex and
more than a passing interest in pursuing middle school-aged girls for
intimate relations. In a Yahoo chat room, he met 13-year-old "Amy," the
decoy, asked her what times her mother left the house for work, mentioned her "beautiful lips," suggested
he wanted intercourse and asked the girl if she "likes sucking cock."
 |
| Deck has never stopped making excuses for his sex crime. |
His concocted defense failed, in part, because he brought with him to the date a box of condoms.
The expiration date on the box had passed.
Police arrested him when he approached the decoy and he immediately faked a serious illness.
Police arrested him when he approached the decoy and he immediately faked a serious illness.
Email to Friend
Write to Editor
Print Article
