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Greg Kelly Still Hasn't Spoken To Investigators, Which Is Totally Normal?
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John Del Signore
Published Feb 2, 2012
Modified Feb 2, 2012
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A layman might think that when somebody gets accused of rape, one of the investigators' top priorities would be to interview the suspect, to get his side of the story on record. But it seems this is not the way it works, at least not for Greg Kelly, a local TV news host and son of the NYPD Commissioner. An unidentified woman filed a complaint against Kelly more than a week ago, but investigators have still not spoken to Kelly, whose attorney says he's innocent.
"Here, in America, you don't have to explain yourself," defense attorney Edward Mandery, who represented Franklin Mata, a cop accused of rape last year, tells the Daily News. And Gerald Shargel, who once repped John Gotti, says, "Lawyers don't march their clients in to get brow-beaten by prosecutors like we see on 'Law & Order.'" Still, doesn't it seem odd for a guy to get accused of rape and not be questioned? One attorney tells the Post that while it would be "unorthodox" to let a client be interviewed before charges were filed, in this case it might not be a bad idea, since Kelly is "articulate" and has his career to think about.
On the other hand, anonymous sources have been doing a pretty swell job of portraying Kelly's accuser as an unreliable woman who cheated on her boyfriend and may have concocted the rape story after she got found out. Sources tell the Post today that the DA investigators "are skeptical of her claim and are leaning toward not charging him — mainly because of a three-month lag in reporting the alleged rape, and because of sexual text messages the duo exchanged before their fateful date." And just to reiterate: Kelly has not been charged with any crime.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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