The Greenburgh police officer at the center of a sex scandal involving a dominatrix will get a jury trial as requested.

Officer Erik Ward has been charged with official misconduct and suspended without pay stemming from allegations that he had sex with Gina AnnaNoel Pane. Pane was arrested in January on a marijuana charge and claims she was sexually harassed by officers at the station after they discovered she worked as a dominatrix. The next day, she alleges, Ward met her and promised to drop the marijuana charge in exchange for sex.

Ward appeared in court Friday amid cheers from his supporters. His fellow officers insist Ward is innocent of the charges brought against him. A trial date has been set for October 16.

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