Racial-Bias Conviction of Former Gloucester Twp. Employee Overturned
In a published decision, a state Appellate Court panel partially overturned the 2010 conviction of David T. Pomianek Jr., a former township public-works employee.
A state Appellate Court panel on Tuesday partially overturned the conviction of a former township Public Works employee accused of calling a black co-worker who was locked in an equipment cage a "monkey." In a 37-page, published decision, a three-judge panel threw out charges of bias intimidation and official misconduct against David T. Pomianek Jr. The judges upheld Pomianek's convictions on charges of harassment by communication and harassment by alarming conduct. In essence, the appellate court ruled that the state failed to prove Pomianek's biased intent in making the comment. The state's anti-bias law "would be unconstitutional if it permitted a defendant to be convicted of a bias offense based on the victim's perception of the …
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karen
10:10 am on Thursday, January 31, 2013
If a black person put a white person in a cage and said "Polly want a Cracker" that would be fine, it would have never even made it to a court! This is what is wrong with our world when it happens to a black person everyone is all over it, but if it's black on white it's pushed to the wayside. But than the blacks don't want racism in the world, but they are the ones that keep it going, by making … more ›