He testified that the officer connected with a knee and took a blow to his face, but he shied away from detailing the exchange blow by blow. I m not watching the guy s movements, Mattiello said. I m in the fight. You know. I shouldn t have to go through that.
Mattiello was the first witness in the case, taking questions from Assistant Attorney General Daniel Guglielmo before Magistrate Judge J. Patrick O Neill.
He had been arrested in the wake of a domestic incident involving his brother. He was accused of assaulting his brother with a piece of aluminum. Taken into custody by Leonard and Officer Zachary Burns, he faced a charge of felony assault.