WOBURN, Mass. (AP)—Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan’s brother pleaded notguilty to killing Friday in a genocide of their father, who prosecutors saywas stricken after a violent strife with his son.
Prosecutors contend 70-year-old Daniel Kerrigan died after a quarrel with45-year-old Mark Kerrigan in a family home in Stoneham, outward Boston. Thefamily says Mark Kerrigan is not responsible for his father’s death.
Kerrigan was arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn, where heentered not guilty pleas to killing as well as assault. He left a courthousewithout comment only prior to noon after posting a new $25,000 bail set by theclerk magistrate.
“The Kerrigans are extremely pleased to have Mark behind during home where hebelongs,” his family pronounced after in a statement.
Before a killing indictment, Kerrigan had been out upon bail as well as livingwith his mom in a family’s Stoneham home, where a purported assault tookplace.
Prosecutors pronounced Kerrigan was in a inebriated rage during a Jan. twenty-four argumentwith his father over a make use of of a family write when a conflict escalatedinto violence.
Officials pronounced a younger Kerrigan began grabbing as well as shoving his father.They pronounced Kerrigan grabbed his father around a neck, fracturing his larynx andcausing him to tumble to a floor upon his back, unconscious.
A state healing examiner pronounced a means of genocide was “cardiac dysrhythmia”— a loss or interruption of a normal heartbeat which can lead to cardiac arrest—after an rumpus with neck compression which damaged his windpipe. Thefindings additionally remarkable which a elder Kerrigan had tall red blood pressure as well as cloggedarteries.
On Friday, prosecutor Elizabeth Keeley argued ! for $50, 000 bail, observant MarkKerrigan has a story of assault as well as had been expelled from a 3 1/2-yearprison term customarily two months prior to a quarrel with his father. Keeley saidKerrigan suffers from anxiety over his fright of returning to prison, as well as toldpolice he would conflict if they came to detain him again.
She remarkable his mother, Brenda Kerrigan, who is legally blind, was a onlywitness to a fight.
“I would indicate … which this suspect is a risk to his mother,” Keeleysaid.
Defense profession Janice Bassil countered which it is “simply absurd” tosuggest Kerrigan is a threat to his mom as well as called a prosecutor’sstatements “a obvious attempt to poison open perspective about Mr. Kerrigan.”
Bassil pronounced Kerrigan has complied with a bail conditions. She pronounced hisearlier remarks about military came when he was intoxicated as well as which he isforbidden from celebration as a condition of his bail.
Bassil pronounced a family wants Mark Kerrigan home as they go on to dealwith Daniel Kerrigan’s death.
“Mark grieves, as well, as well as it is only simply unfair to try to pit himagainst his family,” Bassil said.
Prosecutors have mischaracterized healing evidence by observant which DanielKerrigan had a fractured larynx as a outcome of a quarrel with his son, Bassilsaid. She pronounced a fracture was in a territory of a larynx, a left thyroidcartilage, far from a frail bone of a larynx customarily broken duringstrangulation as well as could have been a outcome a pre-existing injury.
She blamed Daniel Kerrigan’s genocide upon a long-standing heart condition.
“The actuality is Mr. Kerrigan died, unfortunately, of a series of heartproblems,” Bassil said.
Members of a Kerrigan family contend they don’t blame Mark Kerrigan for thedeath as well as a family’s attorney, Robert Delahunt Jr., steady which Friday.
“The Kerrig! an famil y is united in their await of Mark Kerrigan as well as beliefof his innocence,” he said. He additionally pronounced Mark plays a vital purpose in hismother’s capability to live independently.
In announcing a indictment Thursday, Middlesex District Attorney GerryLeone pronounced Mark Kerrigan’s “reckless actions as well as finish disregard for hisfather’s reserve as well as well-being” led to his death.
Mark Kerrigan has a criminal record, with convictions dating to 1991,including inebriated driving, assault as well as battery, domestic assaults, resistingarrest as well as defilement of a restraining order. His former counsel pronounced Kerrigan, anunemployed plumber, was upon remedy for post-traumatic stress commotion frommilitary service as well as was saying a psychiatrist.
Nancy Kerrigan, of Lynnfield, won a bronze award during a 1992 Olympics inAlbertville, France, as well as a silver during a 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer,Norway. She won a bullion award during a 1993 U.S. Championships.
She was during a center of a tale during a U.S. Championships prior to a 1994Games, when an assailant clubbed her right knee during use as well as aninvestigation revealed opposition Tonya Harding had believe of a formulation of theattack.
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