By Mareva Brown, The Sacramento Bee
Former Sacramento Police Officer Darryl George Rosen was sentenced to a nine-year, eight-month prison term Friday for sexually assaulting four women while he was working as a patrol officer in the Del Paso Heights area.
Rosen, 29, had asked Sacramento Superior Court Judge Gail D. Ohanesian to grant him a new trial based on seven errors in the original trial.
Rosen claimed, among other things, that he deserved a new trial because his trial attorney, Christopher Miller, had provided inadequate counsel.
But the judge refused to give him a new trial, saying his claims were without merit and noting specifically that Miller had put on a “professional” defense.
Rosen was convicted in July of 11 separate counts of sexual battery, false imprisonment and assault by a peace officer. Jurors found him innocent on four charges, relating to two of his six alleged victims.
They were deadlocked 9-3 in favor of convicting Rosen of the most serious charge, the rape of a 16-year-old girl while she was handcuffed in the back of his patrol car. Had he been convicted of that charge, he could have received a life prison sentence.