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Compelled to testify by federal subpoenas, two BPD officers told their version of events on the night that Byrne allegedly beat Trombly, breaking his jaw. In January 2002, the prosecution granted the officers immunity from any charges other than perjury resulting from their testimony...
...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 threw him across the room into a bench. Trombly’s jaw was broken in the incident, forcing him to eat through a straw for two weeks...
...described the alleged beating by Byrne vividly yesterday, testifying that the officer punched him in the face with closed fists, held him by the throat with one hand while striking him with the other and threw him unprovoked across the room into a bench. Trombly said Byrne broke his jaw, resulting in its being wired shut for six weeks...
Regarding his client’s alleged witness tampering, Libby dismissed them as the result of a misunderstanding. Libby conceded that after reading published reports of Trombly’s broken jaw, which he believed at the time to be false, Byrne had conversations with subordinate BPD officers—but said that Byrne told them only to tell the truth, which he understood to be that Trombly had walked away from the station house without visible injuries...
Those charges were dropped for lack of evidence about a month later—but an investigation was soon launched into Trombly’s allegation that Byrne had repeatedly struck him in the police station, producing a broken jaw which remained wired shut for almost a month...