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Defense begins today in case o
The defense will begin presenting its case today in the official misconduct trial of Wildwood police Sgt. David Romeo.
Romeo, 39, is charged with kicking two handcuffed suspects without provocation while the men were on the ground in a North Wildwood parking lot July 24, 2007.
The two men, Gilbert Haege and Louis McCullough, testified for the prosecution that they were kicked that day. Both men, suspects at the time in a string of car burglaries, said they were not resisting police when they were kicked.
Three of Romeo’s fellow police officers, Edward Ramsey, Walter Cubernot and Roger Lillo, all testified for the prosecution that they witnessed Romeo kick the men, and that at the time both men had been subdued and restrained by officers already on the scene.
In opening statements, defense attorney John Tumelty told jurors that Romeo kicked the men because he saw what appeared to be a weapon lying on the ground between them. “He reacted to that weapon that was on the ground between the two guys,” Tumelty told the jury.
Cubernot, however, has testified that he found the device, a silver Leatherman multi-purpose tool in the closed position, in McCullough’s pocket when he searched him. He later placed the tool in the department’s evidence safe.
Tumelty also said the other officers were making Romeo a scapegoat because they also used physical force on McCullough and Haege during the arrest.
Assistant Prosecutor Matthew D. Weintraub told the jury that Romeo kicked the two men simply because he thought he could get away with it because of his position.
“The defendant felt invincible. He felt like God,” Weintraub told the jury.
Romeo is charged with official misconduct, a second-degree crime, and faces as many as 10 years in prison if convicted.
He joined the Wildwood Police Department in 1994 and was suspended without pay in August 2007 following an internal investigation.
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