Freshman Queens Senator Hiram Monserrate was acquitted yesterday of felony charges that he had intentionally sliced his girlfriend’s face during an argument in his apartment last December. But he was found guilty of “a violent and very forceful dragging” of the injured woman in the aftermath of the incident.
Prosecutors argued that Mr. Monserrate had intentionally sliced Karla Giraldo’s face with a broken glass in a fit of jealous rage, while his defense team maintained the senator tripped while bringing Ms. Giraldo a glass of water in bed, accidentally wounding her (NYLJ, Sept. 22).
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