25 year old exonerated, signs scholly to play safety for EMU

That's crazy after reading the exoneration. It was so flimsy.

I hope he becomes a multi-millionaire, and not just from playing football.

It only takes a vindictive bitch, Jealous GF, etc for you to never see the light of day.

#Metoo is crap, and has put many Male lives in jeopardy from their bullshite.

Let's remember, there was a movement , backed by Female judges that regret sex is also rape. Male Judges bought the bullshite.

It never hurts to send a donation to the Innocence Project.

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These kinds of cases make me sick. The cops, the prosecutors, the judge and, most of all, the jurors, should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.

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Need to start giving them the same amount of jail time the framed person served/would have served. Watch how fast these cases stop.

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#Metoo is crap

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The real crap here is the morons like you who can't even be bothered to look up the specifics of a case before you start vomiting out your predetermined political diarrhea.

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Kelley, committed to Texas-San Antonio at the time, was arrested in 2013, when he was a high-school senior. He was alleged to have sexually abused two young boys at an in-home daycare, and the following year, he was convicted and sentenced. There were significant holes in the case, though, even after conviction — the child never properly identified Kelley, in a photo, as the perpetrator, and the lead detective never interviewed Kelley, and admitted asking leading questions while interviewing the young boys.

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One petition was denied in September 2014, and an appeal was denied in 2016. But in 2017, his new lawyer filed a new petition, claiming Kelley had received an inadequate legal defense in the first trial, and that the lead detective conducted a faulty investigation. He was released on bond in August 2017, a districtcourt judge recommended the conviction be overturned in December 2017, and last Nov. 6, it became official.

Multiple judges wrote that Kelley was an innocent man, not just freeing him based on technicalities.

The other suspect, Johnathan McCarty, is the son of the woman who ran the daycare, and once was a high-school friend and roommate of Kelley's. They were living together at the time of the alleged incidents. McCarty is now in prison on unrelated drug charges.

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According to authorities, the child alleged that Kelley “put his pee-pee” in his mouth on two occasions at a daycare operated by Shama McCarty. McCarty, a booster of the Leander Lions’ football team, had been allowing Kelley, a friend and classmate of McCarty’s son Johnathan, to stay at their home in nearby Cedar Park after his mother was hospitalized with a brain tumor. Days later, a second boy came forward to accuse Kelley of making him touch his penis. Kelley was charged with two counts of indecency with a child and two counts of super aggravated sexual assault, the latter carrying a minimum sentence of 25 years in prison.

At the McCarty’s urging, the Kelley’s sold their house to pay for Patricia Cummings, a top defense attorney in the area.

“When I got Patricia I thought, OK, we’re going to get the truth out there and I’ll get to go back to playing football. But the way she handled the case was completely backwards,” Kelley says.

Over the course of the trial, several clues appeared to point to another suspect: Johnathan McCarty, who bore a striking resemblance to Greg Kelley.

In his outcry interview conducted at the Child Advocacy Center in Georgetown, Texas, the first boy alleged that Kelley was wearing SpongeBob Squarepants pajamas during the assaults, and that the assaults occurred in a bedroom with a couch, a crib, and trophies. The boy reported it to his mother on July 13, leading police to determine that the assaults happened on July 12. The second boy initially named Johnathan as the assailant in his outcry interview, before a series of leading questions from a detective led the child to name Greg. Both boys were interviewed over a half-dozen times by various officials, prompting a child psychologist for the prosecution to testify at trial that asking a young child “repeated questions” about a particular event may cause them to believe that it happened.

Here’s the thing: Kelley had moved out of the McCarty’s home on June 11, and on July 12 was many miles away from Cedar Park, helping his brother move from Hutto to a new place in South Austin. Plus, he spent most of his days in weight training or football practice. Johnathan, on the other hand, was still living in the home at the time of the alleged assaults, owned a pair of SpongeBob Squarepants pajamas that he regularly wore to school, and—unlike Kelley—slept in a bedroom with a couch, a crib, and trophies.

None of these facts, however, were brought up at trial. In lieu of offering up Johnathan as an alternate suspect, Cummings sought to prove that the boys made the whole thing up—thereby pitting their words against Kelley’s.

“I think Patricia’s motive was to have me walk at trial instead of bring the truth forward, so she had her investigation veer around Jonathan,” says Kelley.

Both young boys testified in a separate room via closed-circuit television. The second boy recanted, repeatedly saying that “Greg” did not assault him; the first boy maintained that Kelley did assault him but was not made to identify him in court.

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Hampton’s writ of habeas corpus contained a bunch of new potentially exonerating evidence that was not presented at trial, including: that Kelley was not living at the house and helping his brother move when the alleged assaults took place; that Johnathan owned the SpongeBob Squarepants pajamas; that Johnathan’s bedroom contained the couch, crib and trophies; that a cache of child pornography was found on both Johnathan’s cell phone and computer; that four women had accused Johnathan of drugging and raping them while Kelley was behind bars; and that two witnesses heard Johnathan confessing to sexually assaulting the boy. Hampton also accused Cummings and the Cedar Park police department of negligence.

The revelations surrounding Johnathan left Kelley dumbfounded.

“He was like my younger brother, but man, it’s like I didn’t know this guy at all,” says Kelley. “I do believe that Jonathan did it. At first, it was very hard for me to accept that but as time went on, and the investigation that should’ve happened happened, stones got turned over and evidence came to light that really should’ve come to light in the first place. I think Jonathan has a lot of questions to answer and the way that things went about was absolutely sketchy on his part. I want him to come forward and tell the whole story.”

He pauses. “It’s not just about wrongfully convicting somebody—it’s about the other victims. Hearing that he victimized more people while I went to prison, that’s what really disgusts me with the whole system and this whole deal.”

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Kelley also learned his initial attorney, Patricia Cummings, had strange ties to the McCarty family—including defending one of Johnathan’s half-brothers of sex crimes.

“There’s a lot to that that we don’t know,” offers Kelley. “I’m only gonna speak to what we found, and we found that Patricia has represented the McCarty family and all of Shama’s boys in the past—and some of them were on sexual indecency cases. When we found that out it completely blew me mind that she didn’t feel obligated to let me know that immediately when she had me sign on to be her client. That’s a conflict of interest, and she should have said, ‘Hey Greg, I can’t represent you.’ Instead, Shama recommended that she be my attorney.”

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Christ......

What a redemption story and proof that perseverance pays off. As for that daycare owner, there's a special place in Hell for that b****. Same goes for the prosecutor.

These are the issues black people need to fight for. Stuff like this happens far too often

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There were significant holes in the case, though, even after conviction — the child never properly identified Kelley, in a photo, as the perpetrator, and the lead detective never interviewed Kelley, and admitted asking leading questions while interviewing the young boys.

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They always lead kids because kids don't know what the frick they're talking about and investigators know that kids just want to please authority...so they agree.

It was the basis of the crazy Satanic Child Day-Care trials in the 80's.

Hell, even adults want to please..."hey, I'm just trying to make this easy on you...if you help me out, I can tell the Prosecutor you were cooperative and they'll go easy on you."