Adam Bradley - Perjury
Bradley, Adam ; assault; NRE: perjury/false accusation, no crime
[952:260]; 2nd Dept. 10/17/12; reversed , due to improper exclusion of wife's contradictory statements
"[Bradley] was alleged to have, among other things, thrown a hot cup of tea on his wife and slammed a bedroom door on her hand during two separate incidents which occurred inside their home...At the trial, the [wife's] description of these incidents demonstrated that [Bradley] had committed the alleged acts intentionally. On cross-examination, the...wife specifically denied ever telling anyone that she thought the bedroom door was shut on her hand accidentally. [County] Court precluded defense counsel from asking one of the detectives...whether the...wife ever told him that the bedroom door was shut on her hand accidentally.
"[Bradley] did not dispute that these events took place, but in his testimony demonstrated that the tea had ben spilled inadvertently on both him and his wife and that his wife's hand was accidentally caught in the bedroom door while he and his wife pushed it back and forth during an argument...[County] Court precluded testimony of two witnesses, which was offered to show that the...wife had, on a number of occasions shortly after the bedroom incident, stated that she thought that the door had been shut on her hand accidentally.
"[W]e are satisfied that the verdict of guilt was not against the weight of the evidence...
"However, given the circumstances of this case, we conclude that [Bradley] was deprived of a fair trial."
NRE synopsis (by Maurice Possley):
"Although [the wife] later sought to drop the charges, Bradley went to trial...before a Westchester County judge who heard the case without a jury. [The wife]...had filed for divorce three months before the trial..."
"In June 2013, Bradley went on trial for a second time in Westchester County before a jury. On June 21, after defense witnesses testified that [the wife] had told them she thought the injury to her finger was the result of an accident, the jury acquitted Bradley."
[All emphases added.]
