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'Bachelor' wannabe not guilty in rape case


Published: March 27, 2008 at 10:25 PM
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BOSTON, March 27 (UPI) -- Boston attorney Gary Zerola, who was once considered for "The Bachelor" TV series, has been acquitted of charges he sexually assaulted a teenager.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury deliberated for two hours before returning not guilty verdicts on multiple charges of rape and supplying liquor to a minor, the Boston Herald said.

Zerola, 36, was also found not guilty in January of beating and attempting to rape a young woman in a separate case.

The man previously listed by People magazine as one of the most eligible bachelors in the United States is scheduled to go on trial for sexual battery of a third teen in Miami Beach in late May, the Herald said.

"Today is a victory for all those people who are falsely accused," Zerola said after hearing the not guilty verdict in his second trial.

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