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...cross-examination, Assistant United States Attorney S. Theodore Merritt ’74 called Byrne’s version of the night into question, noting that the sergeant and his lawyers had never offered this story before last week...
...sergeant denied the prosecutor's charge that he instructed several subordinate BPD officers to mislead investigators. Byrne said that after hearing of Trombly’s claim that the officer had broken his jaw—a story which he said he thought was false at the time—he reassured the officers and advised them against spreading rumors. He insisted that he never told them...
...spotlight soon turned on Byrne, as both the BPD and the Federal Bureau of Investigation began to look into Trombly’s allegation that the sergeant had viciously beat him in the District 14 station house...
Lynch said that after leaving Byrne alone with Trombly in a guard room, he heard a loud noise and turned to see the sergeant on top of Trombly, holding him on a wooden bench. He testified that he saw Byrne go on to push Trombly against a wall, throw him into a table and hold him with one hand while hitting him on the side of the face with the other—shouting obscenities and insults at the student all the while...
BOSTON—A Boston Police Department (BPD) sergeant was found guilty in federal court yesterday of beating a Harvard undergraduate in a station house two years...