Rape-accused firefighter Terence Crosbie ‘devastated' he can't return to Dublin
Terence Crosbie was ordered to remain in Massachusetts and will be under GPS monitoring.
A lawyer for rape-accused fire-fighter Terence Crosbie said the married dad is 'devastated' he won't be able to return home to Dublin — as he now faces a second trial in the US.
A Suffolk Superior Court judge in Boston declared a mistrial in the case on Friday, in which Crosbie had been accused of raping a 29-year-old lawyer in a Boston hotel last year as she slept, after the jury remained deadlocked following days of deliberations.
The jury, having begun their deliberations on Monday, sent a note to the judge on Friday afternoon declaring a deadlock.
Later, they sent a second note saying they were 'unable to reach a unanimous decision'.
Dublin fireman Terence Crosbie
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After declaring a mistrial, Judge Sarah Weyland Ellis said Crosbie was a flight risk and increased his bail from $10,000 to $50,000 cash.
Crosbie was ordered to remain in Massachusetts and will be under GPS monitoring. The retrial is set for October 14.
'He's obviously very disappointed in the outcome,' Crosbie's lawyer David C Reilly told The Boston Globe.
'He's missing his family, he's been away from his girls, his wife, since last March.'
After the trial ended, Crosbie's wife, who had flown to America to be at his side, rushed away from the court, covering her face with her hands.
According to the Globe, a number of male friends from Ireland sat comforting her on concrete steps outside, but she declined to comment.
Crosbie (38) is accused of raping the woman in the Omni Parker House hotel room he shared with another Dublin firefighter on March 14, 2024, while both men were in Boston for St Patrick's Day celebrations.
Crosbie testified last week that he never had any physical contact with the woman while both were in the hotel room.
The woman, a 29-year-old lawyer, testified she had fallen asleep in the second hotel bed after having consensual sex with Crosbie's roommate.
She told jurors she was awakened by a man sexually assaulting her.
'I woke up, and a guy was inside of me,' the woman said as she read a text message she sent to a friend at 2:18am, shortly after the alleged attack.
During closing arguments, Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Erin Murphy said the evidence supports a guilty verdict.
'There's no mystery man here, there's no phantom rapist who slipped off into the night,' Murphy told jurors. 'Terence Crosbie is guilty.'
Murphy said that while the woman had consumed alcohol, she was able to provide a detailed description of the alleged attack to police and medical staff just hours later.
Additionally, evidence and records from the night in question connect Crosbie to the hotel room where the woman alleges she was assaulted, Murphy said.
Murphy also reminded the jury that two male DNA profiles were found in a swab from the woman.
'It's a misnomer to say the DNA was inconclusive,' Murphy said. 'What is conclusive is there were two distinct male profiles.'
Speaking after the mistrial was declared, Mr Reilly said he hopes to raise the same 'reasonable doubts' in the second trial.
He said these included the alleged victim's testimony that she did not recall seeing Crosbie's many arm tattoos or remember seeing Crosbie in the hotel room when she first entered with another Dublin firefighter the night of March 14, 2024.
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