“SAN JOSE — A Santa Clara police sergeant was convicted Monday of misdemeanor indecent exposure by a jury convinced that he masturbated nude in front of a Santana Row sales clerk last year, likely ending a 24-year police career.
Thomas William Leipelt was silent as a court clerk read the jury’s verdict and bowed his head as he absorbed the gravity of the conviction. Judge Paul Bernal remanded him to jail. He was then handcuffed in the courtroom and taken into custody by a bailiff.
The victim, identified only as “Danette Doe,” testified Leipelt propositioned her while naked and masturbating in the Annieglass boutique’s storage room after having sex in the restroom with his girlfriend, who also worked there as a clerk. At the time, Leipelt was having a secret extramarital affair that started about a year earlier.
Deputy district attorney Lindsay Walsh said the verdict was a sound rejection of the Leipelt’s starkly contrasting contention that he was simply urinating in restroom when the clerk walked in on him.”
Just think about this guy with handcuffs and a gun pulling your wife or daughter over on a dark deserted highway
Bear in mind that the day before he was arrested he was the instrument of the law
If he said that he witnessed you doing something his word was taken as truth because he is a sworn officer of the court
The next time you look at a cop think of this guy naked and masturbating in the back room
Just because you put on a uniform you are not a hero
All it means is that you are covering up who you really are with blue
Deborah Lee Jarrett 