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NY1er a whiner

Poor Dominic Carter.

The violent NY1 political anchor and his lawyer have whined and moaned for the past year about how “unfair” the prosecution has been to him, and how they’ve wasted his “precious time” in pursuing charges that he was beating his wife, transcripts obtained by The Post show.

“This is unfair!” Carter griped at a March 26 hearing in Ramapo Justice Court in Rockland County, after prosecutors refused to cut him a deal and drop the case if he stayed out of trouble.

“Now I got to stand trial because I [won’t] accept a plea bargain on anything,” he griped, according to transcripts from multiple court hearings on a single charge of domestic-violence assault in October 2008.

Carter, 45, was fuming months later when a prosecutor again refused the dismissal — meaning he’d face the embarrassment of a public trial.

“This is a man who has a very reputable position. He’s in the public eye. He’s a writer, judge!” his lawyer, Martin Gotkin, implored Judge Arnold Etelson at an Aug. 13 hearing.

“What is the sense of fingerprinting him . . . and possibly bringing this to the attention of the press?”

Carter then took aim at prosecutors. “This is misconduct by the people!” he railed to Etelson, according to the transcripts. “What makes me different than any other defendant?”

The prosecutor “doesn’t have a witness. She doesn’t have anything,” Carter said. “My wife told you in open court, under oath, that I didn’t do this.”

Carter’s wife, Marilyn,l has repeatedly said he did not assault her Oct. 22, 2008, despite police reports. She most recently claimed she was attacked by a mystery day laborer,

Gotkin even had the audacity to argue that Dominic had “suffered enough.”

“This case is just impossible to prosecute, your honor,” said Gotkin. “That’s why I’m saying, Why waste the taxpayer’s money, my client’s precious time and the court’s precious time? He’s been punished enough!”

Prosecutor Alicia Cember was furious that Carter expected preferential treatment.

“This defendant should be treated no differently than any other citizen and resident of Ramapo because of his celebrity,” she said.

The case finally went to trial last Thursday — the day The Post exclusively revealed the accusations against Carter. The judge expects to render a verdict this month.

Carter — who is on leave from NY1 — has been throwing his weight around the small-town courtroom since a Dec. 11 hearing, where he bragged of his “personal” friendship with Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau and other officials.

“I will be at the inauguration next month,” he boasted.

At a Feb. 12 hearing, the judge couldn’t resist subtly teasing him, saying, “Well, Mr. Carter, how was the inauguration?”

Carter replied: “It was very, very cold. But it was nice and historic.”

dan.mangan@nypost.com