Mark Kerrigan was acquitted on Wednesday of involuntary manslaughter in the 2010 death of his father. The jury convicted Kerrigan of assault and battery on a person 60 years of age and older, a charge that could put himiin jail for up to 2.5 years. Kerrigan's lawyers argued Daniel Kerrigan died from heart disease. Nancy Kerrigan said her family never believed her brother was guilty. [WCVB]
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Closing arguments in Mark Kerrigan's manslaughter trial were delivered today in Middlesex Superior Court and described two entirely different versions of how Daniel Kerrigan died.
Darrell Rodrigues, 20, pleaded guilty to manslaughter for his role in the 2007 shooting death of 13-year old Luis Gerena Jr. in Jamaica Plain. He faces 14-15 years in prison. Rodrigues and his co-defendant belong to the Academy Homes gang and thought Gerena was a member of the rival Heath Street gang. [Herald]
Two significant trials are underway in Massachusetts. Two versions of how Daniel Kerrigan died were presented on Monday in the opening arguments of Mark Kerrigan's manslaughter trial. DiMasi faces a federal corruption probe alleging he took payoffs to award contracts to Canada-based Cognos.
-- Hector Guardiola, 25, of South Boston was indicted for manslaughter and two counts of assault and battery on Wednesday over an incident at the Lansdowne Pub on August 14. Guardiola allegedly threw a mug that shattered, sending glass flying and ultimately striking and killing Michael DiMaria, 23, of Hicksville, N.Y. He's held on $100,000 bail and will be arraigned November 10 in Suffolk Superior Court. [Globe]
-- Since Thursday, eight people were injured in two different shooting incidents near Washington Street in Jamaica Plain. Five men, described as Hispanic by police, were shot around 4:30 p.m. in the vicinity of the intersection of Boylston and Washington streets. Police are looking for a 6'2'' male suspect on a “dark-colored bicycle" in connection with this case. The Boston Police Department can be reached at (617) 343-5628 with tips on this case. [Herald, BPDNews.com]
-- One man was killed and two others were injured at Lansdowne Pub in a Saturday morning bar fight. Hector Guardiola, 25, of Boston is charged with manslaughter and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, a glass allegedly thrown by the suspect during the melee that shattered and hit the victim in the neck. The Boston Police Homicide Unit is investigating the case. [Herald]
--According to the Herald, the Commonwealth's Supreme Judicial Court ruled that, "Dancing nude in Harvard Square to protest the commercialization of Christmas is not a constitutionally protected act of self-expression," overturning a decision by a lower court to throw out a case against a local woman. The Herald doesn't have much background information about the defendant, except what they could obtain from a vague MySpace profile. [Boston Herald]
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