From the NY Post:Disgraced former City Council Member Dennis Gallagher — who beat criminal charges of raping a woman in his office — scored another big victory when an appeals court threw out the same claim in her lawsuit.
The judge ruled Wednesday that Gallagher was not liable for rape in the civil matter because he didn’t plead guilty to that charge in his sensational criminal case.
In August 2007, the married father of two was indicted on charges that he raped and beat Jacqueline Morrow, 52, in his Middle Village, Queens, office. The two had first met at a bar.
Morrow, a grandmother who worked as a cook in a Queens Catholic church, said the attack left her with torn cartilage in her knee, bruises all over her body and emotional scars.
A judge threw out the rape charge and Gallagher pleaded guilty to misdemeanor sex charges and had to have alcohol counseling.
Morrow quickly filed the civil suit claiming that Gallagher had raped her and asking for unspecified damages, including medical expenses.
In early 2013, a Queens Supreme Court judge found that Gallagher could still be found civilly liable for rape, but the appeals court has overturned that ruling.
“This decision vindicates him from that heinous and false allegation,” Gallagher’s attorney, Keith Sullivan, said in a statement.
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And why would a 52-year-old woman accuse a man of rape? For shits and giggles?
You know it's true!
And why would a 52-year-old woman accuse a man of rape?
Hey, I think he did it, too. But don't dismiss the possibility of false rape claims just because she was 52 - it does happen out there in the real world. Any Republican who hires this sleazebag as a consultant should be shunned.
What a turd. (an ugly one at that )
The slob did it. Unfortunately, the demise of his political career, while deserved, only paved the way for Crowley.
Alright,rape is now legal in queens!
now let me get a council seat so I can lurk around forest park at 5 AM
What did grannie expect at that hour? Playing tiddlie winks?
He offered her a ride, then said he had to stop first at his office to get something. He forced her inside. It wasn't a date.
he is going to be issue #1 in John Messers campaign again this year and I hear this time it will include television commercials.
apparently also how the money is moved around from the senate republicans to messer and then to gallagher has also been figured out and will be exposed.
So he is vindicated from the "heinous and false" rape accusation. He only did a midemeanor sex crime----that means he's OK to re-elect.
Last time I spoke to him (at a bar no less while he was completely shitfaced) he explained it as a "sex scandal."
Disgusting.
He plead guilty. What kind of crap alcoholism counseling did he get? Did the drunk psychiatrist tell him to take his sex offender ass to an AA meeting?
A "heinous and false allegation"? So I'm waiting for Gallagher to sue Morrow for slander.
Also the "beyond reasonable doubt" standard in criminal court moves to "preponderance of evidence" in civil court. I don't understand why a "not guilty" plea for the felony and a "guilty" plea for the misdemeanor automatically and a got him off the hook for civil liability without a trial.
Also the "beyond reasonable doubt" standard in criminal court moves to "preponderance of evidence" in civil court. I don't understand why a "not guilty" plea for the felony and a "guilty" plea for the misdemeanor automatically and a got him off the hook for civil liability without a trial.
Did you read the decision? Good place to start.
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