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San Diego Union Tribune - San
29 March 2007
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El Cajon Police Department, CA
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Police officer found guilty of
An El Cajon police officer was found guilty yesterday of five counts of abusing his authority to extort sexual favors from women, and soliciting or taking bribes.
William Robert Taylor was taken into custody after the verdicts were read. Taylor faces a maximum penalty of 8½ years in prison when he is sentenced April 26, prosecutor Robert Kearney said.
Taylor sat with his hands folded and tears in his eyes as the clerk read the jury's verdict. His mother burst into tears and shouted, “You stupid idiots, you stupid idiots! He's not guilty!”
As a bailiff approached to lead her out of the courtroom, she shouted, “I'm sorry, Bill.”
Taylor, 27, was accused of using his position as a police officer to coerce women he arrested or investigated for petty crimes into performing sex acts while he watched, or to undress in front of him. He also was charged with fondling one woman and of making sexually suggestive comments to others.
During the trial, which began Feb. 26, jurors heard graphic descriptions of sexually-charged behavior, language, and conduct between the defendant and seven women who said he used his authority to abuse them.
Taylor was convicted of five charges: petty theft for taking two knives from one woman he arrested, two counts of requesting or taking a bribe, sexual penetration under the color of authority and sexual battery.
The jury acquitted Taylor of four similar counts, including charges that he forced another woman to undress in front of him in her apartment after arresting her on theft and drug charges.
The jury was “hopelessly deadlocked” on five other charges after deliberating for a week, Judge Charles W. Ervin said.
The jurors deadlocked 11-1 on one of the key charges, a complaint by a La Mesa woman who testified that in 2005 Taylor made her perform a sex act on herself in the back of his patrol car with his police baton while he watched. A criminalist testified that DNA found on the tip of that baton matched the woman's. Taylor's lawyer said the DNA could have been planted.
The jury also was deadlocked 10-2 on a charge that Taylor coerced the woman into touching herself in a sexual manner while in his car.
The judge set an April 9 hearing to determine if Taylor will be retried on the five charges on which the jury deadlocked.
Defense attorney Alec Rose indicated outside the courtroom that questions were raised about the jury verdicts after one juror briefly re-entered the courtroom by herself to talk with the judge after the other jurors had been dismissed.
Ervin briefly summoned lawyers and Taylor back into courtroom to say he would not discuss the matter until the April 9 hearing.
“This is not the appropriate time to do that,” Ervin said.
Rose wouldn't say outside the courtroom what issue might have been raised by the juror. He said it would be up to her to “make a record” about her concerns.
El Cajon Police Chief Cliff Diamond said in a prepared statement that Taylor's actions were “not indicative” of how the rest of the department behaved.
“The men and women of the El Cajon Police Department believe we are caretakers of the public trust and as such are responsible for enforcing the laws in an ethical manner,” Diamond said. “It is a travesty that this officer chose to violate that trust and betray the code of law enforcement ethics.”
Taylor has been on unpaid leave from the department since his arrest in February 2006.
Rose argued that Taylor's intentions had been misinterpreted by a few of the more than 300 people he had arrested in the three years he was on the force. He said some officers who investigated Taylor were out to get him for unpopular stances he took during a labor union election.
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