Mark Kerrigan dodges manslaughter charges but guilty of battery
(AP) - The brother of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was acquitted today of manslaughter in the death of their 70-year-old father. The jury apparently agreed with his defense that Daniel Kerrigan died of heart disease, not from a scuffle between the two. Mark Kerrigan, 46, was convicted, though, of a misdemeanor assault and battery charge in the January 2010 altercation with his father at the family's home near Boston. Nancy Kerrigan and her mother, Brenda, embraced and cried after the verdict was read. More»
