“My union took my money and put me at a severe disadvantage.”

Cody, who became emotional when he talked about being unfaithful to his wife, said all but a few of his co-workers abandoned him.

“I did my job, I tried to help someone, finish out my career. I had two years left. Instead I allowed myself to get involved in a consensual relationship. That’s it,” he said. “I did not coerce my accuser.”

He contended that jurors had called his attorney after the verdict expressing “buyer’s remorse.”

Deputy County Attorney Amy Goodro said she disagreed with Cody’s perception of evidence in the case, as well as comments jurors made after the trial, with whom she also spoke, but wouldn’t debate the facts of the case at sentencing.

“Mr. Cody has taken no responsibility for this offense,” she said. “He deflects attention from himself ... he blames others. Obviously he blames the victim, he blames his attorney in the (pre-sentence report), he blames the prosecution as well as the Me Too movement.”