Police detective convicted of inventing a crime to imprison innocent man is allowed to walk free by judge

A police detective who fabricated a fake assault and lied under oath in order to imprison an innocent man has been spared jail time.Former NYPD officer Michael Bergmann, 34, filed a criminal complaint claiming that a burglary suspect – whose car he had reportedly been pulling over for months in order to find grounds for his arrest – had tried to run him over in such a manner that the offending vehicle left skid marks on the ground.

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