[UPDATED] Senator Slashy Blames Girlfriend's Intoxication

[UPDATE BELOW, with video] State Senator Hiram Monserrate's girlfriend told hospital workers he had beaten her and slashed her face only because she was drunk, Monserrate's lawyer said yesterday. "Were not blaming her for anything," said famed defense lawyer Joe Tacopina. "But intoxication impairs one's ability to perceive." The Post also notes that Tacopina blamed a "language barrier."

As previously reported, the trial is proceeding without evidence from Monserrate's girlfriend, who agrees with his story that the slashes on her face, which apparently go in several different directions, were a result of him falling on her with a glass of water in hand. But there's other evidence: today it was revealed that the same neighbor who heard Monserrate say, "You want the water? You want the water? Here's your water!" (and then heard a thud) also had to "bang on the ceiling with a yardstick" to get the loudly arguing couple to shut up.

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By John Kuhner in News on September 22, 2009 4:46 PM

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Snoopy

How can you bang on a ceiling with a yard stick? By the time it makes a noise loud enough to hear, it's broken.

Plus where do you get yard sticks today? I haven't received one from my local hardware dealer since Kennedy was in office.

Mr Mel

They bought her off.

kswissreject

What gets me is the continuously changing story. If she was drunk and tripped into him while he had the water, why did they say HE tripped into her? Guilty.

But still not as bad as Peter Sword. That guy, he should be shot. Or exiled to NJ, at least.

HOTCUP

seems pretty damning, although understandable if you've ever tried to take care of a stubborn drunk.

militza

well, there are different kinds of drunks: happy drunk, pompous drunk (spouts various thoughts and opinions in an effort to appear smart and enlighted while completely blitzed) and angry drunk (includes violent drunk.) the sentor appears to fall in the third category.

Sidenote-these are just my thoughts on drunks and what I have encountered.