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Bluelight Crew
A man serving 40 years for raping his eight-year-old daughter has lost his bid to be released from prison, even though the alleged victim has insisted for the past 15 years that the crime never happened, and that she only said it had because her drug-addicted mother threatened to beat her.
In a letter to Daryl Kelly's attorney, Orange County D.A. Francis Phillips said he stands by Kelly’s 1998 prosecution, because of the findings of a re-investigation conducted at his request by the Committee on the Fair and Ethical Administration of Justice of the District Attorneys Association of the State of New York (DAASNY).
“After a thorough investigation, the CFEAJ has determined that Kelly was not wrongfully convicted,” wrote Phillips. “That conclusion is, in my opinion amply supported by the evidence and the reasoned analysis in the report.”
“I’m absolutely devastated,” said alleged victim Chaneya Kelly, now 25, who first told her story to NBC News in August. “My father didn’t rape me, and I don’t know why they just won’t believe me.” She vowed to continue fighting on behalf of her father, and has written a letter to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying she was “completely insulted” by the re-investigation. “Every time I told them that my father did not commit any of the malicious crimes he was convicted of,” she wrote in the letter, “they treated me as if I was lying.”
The DAASNY reinvestigation included extensive interviews with nearly everyone involved in the original prosecution. The report, which Phillips received last month, says “every conceivable effort has been undertaken to find the unvarnished truth regardless of how or whom it impacts.”
Daryl Kelly’s attorney, Peter Cross, disagrees. “Anyone who looks at the facts of this case will see that Daryl is obviously innocent,” said Cross. “Based on information I’ve gathered since this report was written, it is provably biased.” One of the individuals interviewed by the state committee sent Phillips a letter saying the report contains “misleading and inaccurate quotes,” and an expert he hired sent Phillips a letter calling the committee’s rejection of Chaneya’s recantation “unscientific.”
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In a letter to Daryl Kelly's attorney, Orange County D.A. Francis Phillips said he stands by Kelly’s 1998 prosecution, because of the findings of a re-investigation conducted at his request by the Committee on the Fair and Ethical Administration of Justice of the District Attorneys Association of the State of New York (DAASNY).
“After a thorough investigation, the CFEAJ has determined that Kelly was not wrongfully convicted,” wrote Phillips. “That conclusion is, in my opinion amply supported by the evidence and the reasoned analysis in the report.”
“I’m absolutely devastated,” said alleged victim Chaneya Kelly, now 25, who first told her story to NBC News in August. “My father didn’t rape me, and I don’t know why they just won’t believe me.” She vowed to continue fighting on behalf of her father, and has written a letter to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying she was “completely insulted” by the re-investigation. “Every time I told them that my father did not commit any of the malicious crimes he was convicted of,” she wrote in the letter, “they treated me as if I was lying.”
The DAASNY reinvestigation included extensive interviews with nearly everyone involved in the original prosecution. The report, which Phillips received last month, says “every conceivable effort has been undertaken to find the unvarnished truth regardless of how or whom it impacts.”
Daryl Kelly’s attorney, Peter Cross, disagrees. “Anyone who looks at the facts of this case will see that Daryl is obviously innocent,” said Cross. “Based on information I’ve gathered since this report was written, it is provably biased.” One of the individuals interviewed by the state committee sent Phillips a letter saying the report contains “misleading and inaccurate quotes,” and an expert he hired sent Phillips a letter calling the committee’s rejection of Chaneya’s recantation “unscientific.”
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http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_...rison-for-rape-but-da-upholds-conviction?lite
