A federal jury yesterday convicted now former Transit Police Sgt. David Finnerty, 49, of Rutland, on one depend of aiding and abetting the submitting of a false report as a part of a coverup of the best way then TPD officer Dorston Bartlett beat a homeless man with a baton after which filed a faux cost of assault and battery towards him for an incident at Ashmont station in 2018.
The jury acquitted Finnerty on a second cost of submitting his personal false report in reference to the incident.
US District Court docket Decide F. Dennis Saylor set sentencing for Aug. 21, court docket data present.
A federal grand jury indicted Finnerty in 2023, a number of months after the Suffolk County District Lawyer’s workplace dropped its personal fees towards him, claiming it discovered new computerized arrest-log knowledge that confirmed Finnerty was to not blame.
A second sergeant was additionally initially charged, however Suffolk County prosecutors dropped the case after realizing a few of the statements he had made that they deliberate to make use of at trial weren’t admissible in court docket.
The officer with the baton, Dorston Bartlett, was indicted in 2019, by a Suffolk County grand jury, on assault and battery and civil-rights fees. 5 days earlier than the scheduled begin of his trial in 2022, he reached a plea cope with the DA’s workplace, during which he would plead responsible to a diminished cost of simply assault and battery. He was sentenced to probation.
