Trudi Gilfillian
A state appellate panel has
found that former Wildwood police Sgt. David Romeo received an appropriate
prison sentence following his March 2010 conviction for official misconduct.
Romeo was originally sentenced
in May 2010 to five years in state prison, but Superior Court Judge Raymond
Batten chose not to impose a five-year period of parole ineligibility as
mandated by state statute for the second-degree crime. Romeo remained free
while the case went through the appeals process.
Romeo was convicted by a jury
of kicking two handcuffed suspects while they were lying on the ground in a
Wildwood parking lot.