Posted on 10/15/2009 4:59:31 PM PDT by Steelfish
State Senator Is Found Guilty of Misdemeanor Assault
John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times
Hiram Monserrate arrives at the Queens County Criminal Courts building to hear the verdict in his assault trial.
October 15, 2009
State Senator Hiram Monserrate, a freshman Democrat and former police officer and city councilman, was found guilty on Thursday of misdemeanor assault, but escaped a felony conviction for slicing his companion’s face during a bitter argument in his Queens apartment on Dec. 19, 2008.
Justice William M. Erlbaum, who tried the case without a jury in State Supreme Court in Queens, found Mr. Monserrate guilty of recklessly causing physical injury to his companion, Karla Giraldo, by dragging her though his lobby after she was cut.
The judge found him not guilty of two felony counts of causing her serious injury, one citing the glass as “a dangerous weapon.” He also acquitted Mr. Monserrate of a misdemeanor charge of intending to cause physical injury to Ms. Giraldo by cutting her with a drinking glass.
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I knew from the moment there wasn’t a party affiliation in the title that it was a DemocRat.
Law and Order Democrat who switched to the GOP and then back to the Dems. Emotionally unstable as is his (crazy but hot) girlfriend.
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