Rodney Vicknair Wiki – Rodney Vicknair Biography

After a federal judge rejected a plea deal between the government and the defense, Rodney Vicknair a 55-year-old former New Orleans Police Department officer was sentenced to double prison time for sexually assaulting a teenage girl he once took to a hospital. for a rape kit. After a federal judge rejected a plea deal between the government and the defense, a 55-year-old former New Orleans Police Department officer was sentenced to double prison time for sexually assaulting a teenage girl he once took to a hospital. for a rape kit.

According to the factual basis of the guilty plea, entered by the government in federal court and agreed to by the defense in November, then-police officer Vicknair admitted to having met the victim (V1) when she was 14 years old after being raped. He took the teen to a hospital to obtain a rape kit and gave her her number, “and offered to be her friend and mentor to her,” the documents say.

Vicknair attempted to reach out to the victim by communicating with her for months on the phone and on Snapchat and, while in uniform, “often dropped by unannounced at V1’s residence. ” “Over time, VICKNAIR made comments to V1 that were sexual in nature. VICKNAIR requested and received sexually explicit photographs of V1 and stored them on her cell phone,” the documents state. He “On one occasion he touched V1’s chest under her shirt and on another occasion he touched V1’s buttocks on top of her clothes.”

Rodney Vicknair Age

The age of Rodney Vicknair is 45 years.

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Rodney Vicknair accused of sexually assaulting 15-year-old rape victim

After the victim’s 15th birthday, on September 23, 2020, Vicknair traveled to his home in Louisiana and “told her to come out and get in his vehicle,” according to the documents. Once the victim was inside the vehicle, Vicknair locked the doors, wouldn’t let her out, and “feeled at her genitals under her clothing.” The government maintained that the crime also “constituted kidnapping.”

According to court documents, Vicknair lied to detectives from his former police department about why he visited the victim the night of the sexual assault and when he said he had not committed the crime. He only acknowledged at the time of the interview that he said the boy had a “nice body” and “nice butt.”

The kidnapping charge meant that Vicknair potentially faced a life sentence, leading to a dispute between the defense and the prosecution over what the level of offense should be. The government calculated the level of the offense and concluded that, given the kidnapping charge, the sentencing guidelines for the level 43 offense called for life in prison. However, the government entered a plea agreement with the defendant, in favor of a 7-year sentence, under Rule 11(c)(1)(C) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

“The United States understands the importance of calculating the Sentencing Guidelines correctly and therefore respectfully requests the Court adopt the above calculations,” the government said in a sentencing memorandum. “However, for all the reasons set forth in its Sentencing Memorandum, the United States requests the Court to impose the sentence agreed to by the parties.”

Such so-called “C” pleas are rare, as Law & Crime noted in the context of the Derek Chauvin case, and judges are often reluctant to accept them. The reason? If the judges accept the “C” pleas, that is, the sentence negotiated between the parties, their hands are tied in sentencing.

The judge, in fact, blew up the deal and scheduled a hearing for the morning of March 14, today. The end result of that hearing, according to the Justice Department, was a 14-year sentence (as of Tuesday afternoon, docket activity had not been updated to reflect that sentence).

Vicknair was fired from the New Orleans Police Department following rape allegations. The victim’s mother filed a lawsuit in February 2021 alleging that Vicknair showed the victim photos of a girl he claimed was his 16-year-old daughter. The other girl was wearing bikinis, lingerie and covered herself with a cloth, the lawsuit said. The former officer was also accused of claiming that his daughter was a model.Read more…..