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It only took a Montgomery County Circuit Court jury a half-hour to find Kenny Tran, owner of the Sky Nails Salon in Christiansburg, not guilty of sexual battery Tuesday.
Just last Friday, Tran had a separate sexual battery charged dismissed in Montgomery County after the judge watched surveillance tape of the alleged incident at his Christiansburg salon. Tran’s trial on Tuesday stemmed from an incident, which took place in May 2006. The female victim testified that Tran rubbed the side of her breast with the back of his hand, as well as, massaging her arm while she was getting a manicure. The woman testified, she didn’t know whether Tran’s actions were intentional. But he didn’t stop until she placed her hand between his hand and her breast. Tran’s attorney, Christopher Tuck, said that if the woman didn’t know if his client’s actions were intentional, than a jury shouldn’t have to determine it either. During the hearing, Tuck asked Judge Bobby Turk to strike the charge, but the judge refused his motion. Tran, who took the stand in his own defense, said “No” when asked by his attorney if he had touched the woman’s breast. Nine long-time female customers of the salon stated in court on Tuesday that customers sit in the open and it would be noticeable if Tran would had touched someone. However, none of the women, who testified for the defense on Tuesday, were in the salon at the time of the alleged incident. Yesterday’s trial was Tran’s fourth sexual battery trial in Montgomery County Circuit Court. Thus far, he’s been found “not guilty” of sexual battery in any of them. One his earlier trials did result in Tran being found guilty of a lesser charge of assault and battery. Tran’s victims include four women and two 12-year-old females. Tran was convicted of two counts of sexual battery in 2001 in Pulaski County after he touched two women in a salon that he owned there.
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