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Judge To Decide Whether Portsmouth Cop Can Keep $2.7M Inheritance

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A judge has 60 days to decide whether a Portsmouth police sergeant can keep a $2.7 million inheritance left to him by a 93-year-old woman.

Closing arguments were made in the case Tuesday, with lawyers accusing Sergeant Aaron Goodwin of acting improperly in his relationship with Geraldine Webber, who died in 2012.

They argue Webber suffered from dementia and that Goodwin used his position to take advantage of her condition.

Attorneys for Goodwin say Webber knew what she was doing when she chose to leave her estate to him.

Goodwin took the stand in his own defense last week, saying he stood behind everything he did for Webber and that he wouldn’t have done anything differently.

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