The jury deliberating bike-push cop Patrick Pogan’s case went home for the day without reaching a decision.
Deliberations resumed today at 12:30 p.m. after being put on hold all morning after the husband of Juror No. 9 called in to say she was sick with a fever and strep throat.
The delay was compounded when court officers could not then reach the juror herself by telephone — to determine the extent of her illness — because she was home, sound asleep, said Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley.
“She’s an older woman, so it sounds like we’ll be missing [her] for an indeterminate amount of time,” the judge said.
An alternate has been subbed in, and the jury was instructed to start deliberations over from the beginning. The jury had deliberated five hours after getting the case yesterday.
Pogan, 24, is fighting charges he shoved, then framed, a Critical Mass bicyclist while policing a 2008 cycling rally in Times Square.
The violent shove, which knocked cyclist Christopher Long, 31, to the pavement, was captured on video that became a YouTube classic and the prime evidence against the young cop.
The resigned rookie faces a maximum sentence of four years prison if convicted of lying on paperwork to get Long arrested for knocking into him, rather than the other way around.