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Trial set in ’01 Cape Cod drowning case

February 16, 2011

By Staff Reporter

Cord Shore and his father, Joseph Shore, are accused of “seaman’s manslaughter” based upon their alleged misconduct, negligence and inattention to duty during a cruise they were operating in Hyannis Harbor on July 22, 2001.
Kinsella, a 20-year-old student from Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow, had joined a group of her Irish friends aboard the 58-foot charter boat Sea Genie II for the Sunday evening party cruise. At around 11 p.m., word quickly spread that Kinsella had fallen overboard, evidently through a broken railing on the boat’s deck.
Passengers, including about a dozen young Irish, subsequently told police that crew members drank alcohol and smoked marijuana during the cruise and only belatedly called for emergency assistance after Kinsella fell overboard, opting instead to spend precious moments tossing evidence of alcohol consumption by underage drinkers into the harbor.
Although 30 of the 56 passengers were under the Massachusetts legal drinking age of 21, large quantities of alcohol were readily available to all aboard the boat, and the elder Shore had participated in the service of alcohol to those on board despite the fact that the town’s licensing board had recently denied his application to serve alcohol on the boat. As a result, he is being charged with an additional count of manslaughter, one involving fraud and connivance.
Kinsella had recently completed her first year of college in Dun Laoghaire, where she was training to become an elementary school teacher.
During the arraignment last year, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Schulman said that she expects to call as many as 20 witnesses for the prosecution, many of whom are expected to return from Ireland to testify.

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