Harrisonburg DUI DWI Lawyer Bob Keefer: Even Police Officers charged with Felonies are presumed innocent unlike those accused of DWI DUI

Lieutenant Hendrickson, a 47 year old Newport News Police Lieutenant, has been charged with several sex charge felonies in York County, Virginia.

 Police Lieutenant Hendrickson was charged on Monday, December 29, 2008 with felony abduction with intent to defile, abduction, penetration with an inanimate object, and misdemeanor sexual battery.

 Police Lieutenant Hendrickson is being held at the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail since the Court decided not to release him on bond given the seriousness of the charges. 

 Police Lieutenant Hendrickson has been a member of the Newport News Police Department for almost 23 years.

 The police department has placed Hendrickson on leave with pay.

 I am sure that Police Lieutenant Hendrickson deserves to keep his job with pay while charges are pending and to be treated like he is presumed innocent until proven guilty; however, I just wish ordinary citizens charged with misdemeanor DUI got the same presumption of innocence. 

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