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The Morris County prosecutor’s office insists that Formisano is not being accorded special treatment because he is a police officer.
“If this defendant was a house painter or a businessman on Wall Street in the same circumstances, it would have been handled in the same way,” a spokesman told The Daily Beast.
But the spokesman could not immediately name a case that had been handled similarly.
“Every case is unique,” he said.
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