After his broken jaw was wired shut, Trombly spent about two months unable to eat solid food.
“I feel fine,” Trombly said. “I’m totally healed [and] done with the oral surgeon.”
The deadline for Trombly to file a civil suit against the 47-year-old sergeant is September 2004.
The BPD is withholding the names of the four officers Byrne allegedly attempted to persuade not to report the alleged incident to authorities.
“This alleged conduct by a Boston police officer is reprehensible but is in no way representative of the Boston Police Department,” said U.S. Attorney Anthony Sullivan.
Good has refused to comment about the federal government’s charges.
The case will be prosecuted by senior litigation counsel S. Theodore Merritt ’74 of Sullivan’s Public Corruption and Special Prosecutions Unit, and by trial attorney Mai Linh Spencer of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C.
—Staff writer Justin D. Gest can be reached at gest@fas.harvard.edu.