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Cirignano juror speaks! by Susan Ryan-Vollmar
editor-in-chiefTuesday Nov 20, 2007 The Worcester-based Pie and Coffee blog has an interview with a juror on the Larry Cirignano assault trial. Bottom line? Five of the six jurors simply disagreed that Larry Cirignano, former executive director of Catholic Citizenship did anything wrong.
Here’s a snippet from the interview: "Because the judge went over the definition of assault and battery before he sent us in. I was trying to argue the case that, according to the definition of assault and battery, he’s guilty, cause he fulfilled all those criteria. And the fellow jury members didn’t agree. A lot of them couldn’t remember the exact components were, so I had the judge print out the written definition. And from there, it became pretty clear to me. I believe the components were: did he touch the victim, did he intend to touch her, did he have any right or excuse to touch her, and was it without her consent or could it lead to bodily harm. And I thought that fulfilled, his actions fulfilled every component of that. And so by the law, I felt he should be guilty. Some of my fellow jury members also felt that yes, he did fulfill every component of that, but they didn’t agree that was assault and battery. They thought assault and battery was when the victim ends up bloody, or beaten, or with a black eye."
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