Court Clears Coach In Assault Case

Robert K. Sealise, head coach of the women's soccer and men's lacrosse teams, has been cleared of charges that he was an after the fact," accomplice to the April 16 assault on a 16 year old boy.

Brookline Municipal Court Judge Henry P. Crowley dismissed the case September 27 after Sealise passed a polygraph test.

Sealise said yesterday that he was mistakenly linked to the crime because he happened to be driving by the scene of the assault. The victim, Edward Flood, wrote down his license plate number, mistakenly believing the assailants had run to the car, he added.

Sealise said yesterday that the three unapprehended teenage assailants fled to a cat next to his after they attacked Flood and two others with a baseball bat.

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Sealise said the trial disrupted the late few months of his life noting that he had to make eight separate appearances in Brookline.

He said he had to cut short a women's soccer trip to Denmark this summer for a court appointment, only to find that the court-date had been postponed. He also missed several days of work this summer at a summer camp, he added.

"I became a little bitter at the whole legal system," he added.

Edward Flood and his parents could not be reached for comment yesterday.