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"straight edge" cop tests positve for coke but....

SouthCrackalackSouthCrackalack 3,853 Posts
edited April 2009 in Strut Central
Coke cop says oral sex to blame for dirty test, but judge not buying itBY Alison Gendar and Jose MartinezDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERSWednesday, April 8th 2009, 6:40 AMA decorated ex-cop who claimed he tested positive for cocaine because he ingested the drug during oral sex with his girlfriend can't have his job back, a Manhattan judge has ruled.Supreme Court Justice Eileen Rakower last month shot down helicopter pilot Jon Goldin's attempt to overturn his April 2008 dismissal from the NYPD.Goldin, a 15-year veteran, tested positive for cocaine in October 2006 in a random drug test using hairs from his arm.Goldin - an adherent of the "straight edge" lifestyle that rejects substance use - didn't challenge the drug test.He sued last year after a state appeals court rejected the NYPD's use of hair to test cops for illegal drug use."This is a very special human being who devoted his entire life to being a police officer," said lawyer Paul Goldberger. "He would no more use drugs than the man on the moon."Goldin's lawsuit said the cocaine in his system was the product of "passive ingestion" from performing oral sex on girlfriend Coreen McCarthy, who, once he tested positive, admitted to him that she was a regular cocaine user."She never told [Goldin] about her drug use," court records say.The couple met at a punk concert and, according to court records, they "would often sweat" while having sex "three or four times per week."They split immediately once Goldin tested positive for cocaine.More than 70 friends went to bat for the ex-cop, saying they had never seen him take even a sip of coffee and that he abstained at bars while others drank booze."Clearly the wrong result was reached in this case," Goldberger said. "This guy should be a cop."Rakower ruled that even though the appeals court put a stop to hair tests in December 2007, Goldin's firing must stand because he voluntarily cooperated with the drug test and allowed hair samples to be taken from his arm.The state's highest court Tuesday agreed to hear an appeal from the NYPD in favor of hair testing, which the city began using in 2005.

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  • kitchenknightkitchenknight 4,922 Posts


    Police really need to start doing a bit more of said job to themselves, as this shit never makes them look good.
  • Hotsauce84Hotsauce84 8,450 Posts
    In all seriousness, I've had nightmares about mistakenly getting arrested for drunk driving. Like I smell like alcohol from the club and then get pulled over. In my nightmare, all my friends and family come to my defense but the judge doesn't believe that I don't mess with alcohol.

    I also don't mess with drunk womens so unfortunately I wouldn't be able to use the oral sex defense.
  • GaryGary 3,982 Posts
    straight edgers.... lol.


    they're like the mormons of punk.
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    That's weird, I recall a gay cop in NYC using the same defense and he got his job back unless I have that story twisted up which is certainly possible. Another got his job back after proving that his wife made pot brownies unbeknownst to him so that he would fail a drug test since she didn't want him to be a fireman anymore.
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