Ex-officer
gets 1 day in prison, 6 months house arrest
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA —
A former Philadelphia police
officer has been sentenced to one day in prison followed by six months of house
arrest in what authorities called the improper detention of an Iraq War veteran
last year.
Thirty-three-year-old Kevin
Corcoran was acquitted of charges of false imprisonment and official oppression
last fall but convicted of obstruction of justice, a second-degree misdemeanor.
Prosecutors said Corcoran drew
criticism and some people began filming him after he allegedly made an illegal
turn. They said Corcoran cuffed one of them, Roderick King of Lansdale, and drove
him around before eventually releasing him.
Prosecutors sought a
three-month minimum sentence, but Common Pleas judge Robert Coleman on Friday
called the incident an aberration amid Corcoran's 10-year career. Corcoran was
suspended from the force and later lost his job.
