In accordance with courtroom paperwork filed Thursday, Sean Herman entered a “greatest curiosity” plea in Nashville legal courtroom for one depend. A second depend was dismissed.
Herman, 35, faces one yr of supervised probation. One of the best curiosity plea signifies that a defendant pleads responsible whereas sustaining factual innocence of the crime.
Moreover, he was granted judicial diversion, which signifies that sure eligible defendants who efficiently end probation underneath the decide’s circumstances could have their circumstances dismissed. They will additionally then request that costs be expunged from their report.
In accordance with the Metropolitan Nashville Police Division, Herman was fired in Could 2024 after detectives with the Specialised Investigations Divisions found the video and recognized him whereas sporting his MNPD uniform. He was arrested and charged with the 2 counts that June.
Officers say Herman might be seen participating in a mock site visitors cease within the video that was posted on OnlyFans, a website the place followers pay creators for his or her pictures and movies. The skit allegedly included Herman groping the feminine driver.
An MNPD press launch says that the video was made April 26, 2024, in a warehouse car parking zone whereas Herman was on obligation as a patrol officer.
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In August 2024, a state board indefinitely suspended Herman of his certification to be a regulation enforcement officer in Tennessee, with the understanding that he might argue to be reinstated as soon as the legal case is closed.
Cellphone and electronic mail messages left with an lawyer listed for Herman weren’t instantly returned Friday.