Tacopina Takes Different Legal Sides in Rape Cases - NYTimes.com

A good lawyer - Joseph Tacopina.  No mystery to me how he handled both cases described in the Times article.  I would have taken both and hope I would have gotten similar results. I think the result in the Moreno case was the result of good defense work which developed the ambiguities - rooted in the victim's drunkenness.  And the offenses of which Officer Moreno was convicted will cost im his career as a police officer.
Tacopina Takes Different Legal Sides in Rape Cases - NYTimes.com:

"Over the past couple of months, the defense lawyer Joseph Tacopina has found himself an object of scorn among women’s groups, advocates for sexual assault victims and others.
Mr. Tacopina defended a police officer accused of raping a drunken woman while his partner stood guard. Detractors said Mr. Tacopina had attacked the accuser’s credibility and furthered a defense for his client, Officer Kenneth Moreno, that was implausible.

But nearly a year to the day before Mr. Moreno was acquitted of rape last month, Mr. Tacopina was wrapping up a trial in which he was on the opposite side of a similar case.

In a civil trial last year in New Jersey, Mr. Tacopina won $760,000 for a woman who charged that two police officers of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had raped her while she was drunk."