Among dozens of character references for Terence Crosbie submitted to the court were those written by nurses, primary schoolteachers, priests, and fellow Dublin firefighters. Photograph: Susan Zalkind
Jurors in the trials of the Dublin firefighter ultimately convicted of rape were not privy to all of the evidence the prosecution sought to introduce, a court heard in a sentencing hearing in Boston, Massachusetts, on Thursday.
Terence Crosbie (39) was found guilty by a jury of six men and six women of raping a sleeping attorney in a room he shared with a colleague, Liam O’Brien, and was sentenced to seven to nine years in prison – exceeding the state’s sentencing guidelines.
In a previous tri
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