Former police officer Michael Pena was convicted and sentenced last year to 75 years for sexually assaulting a schoolteacher in upper Manhattan on her way to work. Now, he says his sentence is too harsh and is asking the court to shorten it.
A monster former NYPD cop who raped an elementary school teacher on her way to work wants his 75-year prison sentence reduced — a scenario his victim called her “worst nightmare.”
In papers filed in a Manhattan appeals court, Michael Pena’s lawyer says the sentence is so long that it’s “an injustice” to the fiendish ex-police officer.
He “was punished more harshly than Al Qaeda terrorists, vicious killers, kingpin narcotics offenders, violent gangsters and racketeers,” wrote Pena’s lawyer, Ephraim Savitt.
He called the former NYPD officer’s sentence “politically motivated and media-intensified vengeance,” and noted in the Jan. 27 filing that the first-time offender was slapped with a prison term “three times the mandatory minimum sentence for murder.”
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