In a 70-page first-person expose, a juror on the notorious “rape cops” trial describes an uncomfortable, post-acquittal dinner with disgraced ex-officer Kenneth Moreno — and reveals that he and other jurors believed that what happened on the night of the crime may have been consensual sex.

“What if the two became close?” juror Patrick Kirkland writes in his essay, “Confessions of a ‘Rape Cop’ Juror,” which is available as a $2 download through the Gothamist website.

Referring to Moreno, 43, and the accuser — a 27-year-old fashion executive who’d insisted the on-duty cop raped her as she lay passed out on her East Village bed — Kirkland, who served as Juror No. 8, writes that jurors ultimately found prosecutors hadn’t proven rape.

“What if they hit it off…a moment that turned into conversation, that turned into flirting? What if it all led to something that Moreno thought was consensual?” Kirkland writes.

And what if, he wonders, the woman — who admitted that her memories of almost the entire night had vanished in a drunken blackout — simply couldn’t remember?

Kirkland quotes another juror, a woman, musing: “Do I know what happened? No. I don’t. She could have been drunk and said, ‘Come on, Baby!’ We don’t know. We don’t know what happened.”

“You know,” that woman continued, “there is a higher power they will have to answer to.”

Kirkland, an advertising copy writer by profession, also writes that days after the verdict, he accepted Moreno lawyer Joseph Tacopina’s offer to join both ex-cops and their families and defense teams for food and wine at Da Ciro on Lexington Avenue.

He ultimately — disappointingly — delivers few details on this dinner. But he jokes that when he entered the restaurant, and Moreno rushed him and grabbed him in a bear-hug, he wondered if he was about to be tackled to the floor.

“After all, I had just cost him his pension, his job — I had just convicted him,” the juror writes.

Instead, Moreno only whispered, “Thank you.”