I am so glad this POS was convicted!!! I just watched the news conference where a few of the victims spoke, and it was very sad.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/11/us/oklahoma-daniel-holtzclaw-verdict/
I am thrilled also! For some reason this case grabbed me. The ******* is getting exactly what he deserved.
If every precinct could get rid of the bad apples…
As a former police officer, this guy is going to be a target in prison.
@VeryHappy yes so very true, and no better for him. To think, if he hadnt targeted the older woman, this still may have been happening. Thank goodness, she reported it. The press conference brought tears to my eyes.
This seems to be a thread with just you and me. 
One thing that I don’t understand: Once the older woman complained, they somehow discovered the other complaints. Had the other 12 women gone to the police and, as he anticipated, been dismissed? Kinda hard to disregard 12 women all saying the same thing, it seems to me.
I dont think so. He was very adept at targeting women who had criminal issues, maybe outstanding warrants. Therefore when he stopped them, he would say, “do this for me, or you are going to jail, etc”. The older woman had not been in trouble, no warrants, was just leaving her friends house on her way home. I guess when she filed a complaint maybe they checked into his other stops?
A state policeman in my hometown was convicted of raping an 11 year-old girl. We all expected a harsher than normal punishment for him.
Instead, they converted an office in the county sheriff’s building into a bedroom complete with cable tv and his own bathroom. He worked in the adjoining office issuing IDs for the next two years. I don’t expect the Oklahoma cop to serve too harshly.
Oh, I do. All tolled, the jury convicted him of crimes totally something like 230 years. Even if the judge makes some of them concurrent instead of consecutive, it’s doubtful he’ll ever be released.
He was a cop for three years. These rapes and assaults were over a period of a few months. He has to have raped a bunch of other women too.
I like that he’s going to be locked up forever, and also that the tide is slowly turning. Slowly, rogue cops are getting convicted.
The police officer that took the grandmother’s story and pursued it was a woman. I wonder if a male cop would have believed her.
What does it take to convict on rape charges, though??? The jury acquitted on half the charges.
OK, so the jury established that this guy is a scummy liar and a serial rapist. And they STILL can’t believe the rest of the accusers, who accused him of doing the same thing the jury had already decided he had done to other women?
The prosecution was very happy with the jury’s decision. The prosecution felt comfortable that the jury felt they didn’t prove the other 18 counts beyond a reasonable doubt.
Not all of the charges were rape charges. Some were “sexual battery” and some were “sexual assault.”
This guy has some very serious mental issues. One of his victims was arrested and for some reason taken to the hospital. He raped her in the hospital. Really just hard to process. Throw away the key.
@Magnetron that story in your #7 is sickening. Did he only serve 2 years for raping an 11 year old?
I don’t see that the rape in the hospital shows any more mental issues than any of the other rapes. He arrested the woman and also took her to the hospital for a PCP overdose. She was handcuffed to the bed, he was with her, and he raped her. If the lowlife scum raped women when he figured they wouldn’t be believed, why not rape a woman handcuffed to a bed? Seems like it would be convenient for him.
Most of the victims said they didn’t bother reporting the crime to the police because they figured they wouldn’t be believed. Do you think that if a black woman who abuses drugs reports that a cop raped her, she is believed? Me neither.
I wasn’t believed by many as a white pre-teen with physical evidence because my assailant had high standing in the community. Nothing surprises me about rape/sexual assault.
I didn’t know the jury acquitted half of the charges, CF. I have had a hard time following this story for personal reasons and I assumed that he had been found guilty on all charges. Sickening.
I was amazed at how stunned he seemed at the verdict. Did he really think he would get away with it, or that it was somehow okay for him to do this???
It’s hard to know what to think about the partial acquittal. I think about how I’d be if I were on that jury. The jury found beyond a reasonable doubt that the guy sexually assaulted eight women. If I was convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the guy assaulted eight women, I’d have a tough time finding reasonable doubt for the other five women who made identical accusations.
Maybe the evidence for the other five wasn’t as good, but we know Holtzclaw is a liar and a rapist, so his denials have no credibility at all. He’s entitled to the benefit of the doubt, I guess, but I’m not clear where the doubt is coming from. It seems like a slap in the face to the five women who say they were assaulted too.
On the other hand, if indeed this guy is bound to spend the rest of his life in prison (I don’t know if that’s true) then the jury didn’t need any more convictions. I gotta say, though, if his sentence lets him out of prison for one second of his life, I hope the prosecution finds the women he raped before he assaulted this bunch, and tries him again.
CF: What you say makes sense – I’m sure he did rape all the women – but not having seen the evidence, I’m not in a position to argue with the jury’s decisions.
I too don’t understand the defendant’s reaction at hearing the verdict. He started crying and moaning when he heard the verdict on the first count, which has an eight-year sentence. Then they read the verdicts on the other 35 counts, and he didn’t stop crying and moaning. It seems like he was flabbergasted at the verdict. Like, he never even considered he’d be found guilty?? He mouthed at the jury, “How could you do this?”
Watch this video: http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/10/us/oklahoma-daniel-holtzclaw-trial/
Apparently he’s now on suicide watch.
I agree. I couldn’t understand his reaction.
I could understand his reaction if he’d been claiming that the activity happened but was consensual. But his defense was maintaining that it never happened. Did he somehow forget that he was in fact guilty?