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During the U.S. District Court trial—which started last week after almost a year of delay—prosecutors and witnesses graphically described how Byrne punched Trombly in the face with closed fists, held him by the throat with one hand while striking him with the other and...
The jury unanimously rejected Byrne’s claim that he had used reasonable force in the incident. Taking the stand Tuesday, Byrne admitted striking Trombly in the Brighton station house but said that he had reacted in a terrified split-second after seeing the student reach for what he...
Federal prosecutors alleged in U.S. District Court that BPD Sgt. Harry A. Byrne Jr. used excessive force on Garett D. Trombly ’03 while the student was under arrest shortly after midnight on Sept. 9, 2001, and that Byrne later tried to convince fellow officers to lie about...
The second concerned an alleged screaming outburst directed by Byrne at a man, Michael Tiberio, walking down Tremont Street in June 1998. Stearns ruled that this incident was irrelevant to the case involving Trombly because it “establishes no more than that the defendant has a bad temper...
Davis said he had remained close with Trombly since the incident, though they had been forced to curtail the scenes of their socializing.