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A police officer was convicted on Tuesday of grabbing a schoolteacher off a street and sexually assaulting her at gunpoint while he was off duty, but jurors were told to keep deliberating on some unresolved counts, including rape dr dre headphones. The verdict came during a day of jury tension in an unusual trial in which the defendant admitted a repugnant attack but said he wasn't guilty of the charges against him. Jurors, however, found Michael Pena, 28, guilty of committing a criminal sex act and some counts of predatory sexual assault, an offense that involves wielding a weapon during certain sex crimes. It was the top charge in the case and carries the potential for life in prison. Pena, suspended since his August arrest, was fired shortly after the partial verdict. The victim gasped tearfully as it was read. The defendant's relatives sat tensely, but he displayed no visible reaction. "He's stoic about it" and eying avenues to appeal, said his lawyer, Ephraim Savitt. Monster beats 2012, beats by dre new arrivals for sale. But, the lawyer added, "he's been remorseful from the day I met him, eight months ago." Manhattan District Attorney's Cyrus R. Vance Jr.'s office declined to comment on the case while the deliberations continued. The woman testified that Pena grabbed her off the street, forced her into an Upper Manhattan apartment building courtyard and raped her and forced her into other sexual acts last August, threatening to shoot her in the face if she resisted. She was on her way to her first day of work at a teaching job; he was wrapping up a drunken night of trying to pick up women, according to evidence at the trial. "I was scared for my life," the victim told jurors earlier this month. Pena, who joined the New York Police Department in 2008, didn't testify. Through his lawyer, he admitted attacking the woman but said he never had intercourse, a requirement of the rape charge. The defense said the victim was in such "abject terror" that she was mistaken about the extent of what had happened. The criminal sex act law involves other forms of sexual contact; Savitt called it "very nebulous" and said Pena may challenge its constitutionality in an appeal Newest monster beats studio blue diamond. A resident of the building heard the woman repeatedly scream "no," saw what was happening and called police to say there appeared to be "sex going on that is not consensual" in the courtyard, according to the witness' testimony and a recording of her 911 call. Officers didn't realize that Pena was a colleague until the handcuffed suspect told them there was no need for backup. "My shield is in my back pocket," he said, according to trial evidence. One of the responding officers threw the shield to the ground in disgust, that officer said at a pretrial hearing in December. Jurors had told a judge on Monday that they'd reached the partial verdict but were at a standstill on the rape charges. The judge told them then not to announce the verdict and to continue deliberations Monster beats studio black red diamond 2012. By late Tuesday morning, jurors sent another note saying they remained stuck on the rape charges, and deliberations were becoming very contentious, Savitt said.