Redbook article about child molestation<\/a>\u00a0to evaluate Kelly’s guilt. Ray denied that he compared Kelly to characteristics of a molester listed in the article.<\/p>\n\u201cBut defense attorney David Rudolf vigorously attacked Ray’s credibility by referring to notes Ray made during the deliberations. Rudolf cited numerous phrases from the magazine article, such as \u2018vast amount of child pornography\u2019 and \u2018sex fiend\u2019 which were identical to phrases in Ray’s notes.<\/p>\n
\u201cRudolf, his voice rising, asked Ray whether it was just coincidence that so many phrases from the magazine appeared word-for-word in his notes. Ray replied that \u2018it must be\u2019 because jurors did not have the article in the jury room. \u2018The only explanation you have for this is that it is an amazing coincidence?\u2019 Rudolf asked. \u2018Yes, sir,\u2019 Ray said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn another sharp exchange, Rudolf questioned Ray’s contention that he did not describe the article in an interview with a producer for (\u201cInnocence Lost\u201d). Ray said he told her (only) that there were books in the jury room. Rudolf: \u2018You are under oath, sir.\u2019 Ray: \u2018I do not remember saying that to her. No, sir.\u2019 Rudolf: \u2018Did you say it or not? You are under oath.\u2019 Ray: \u2018I do not believe that I did.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cRudolf then played video tapes of the program that showed Ray describing the article. Ray said after viewing the video that he did not remember it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 From \u201cKelly lawyer attacks juror’s credibility\u201d in the News & Observer (Jan. 20, 1994)<\/em><\/p>\nDennis T. Ray seems to have been quite a loose cannon in the jury room. In addition to the \u201camazing coincidence\u201d of the Redbook article, Ray also (according to other jurors cited in Bob Kelly\u2019s appellate brief) \u201cmade visits to Edenton despite instructions by the trial court not to.<\/p>\n
Mr. Ray also claimed to have talked with an inmate at Eastern Correctional Institution. According to Mr. Ray, the inmate, a convicted child molester, claimed to know Bob Kelly, and to have personal knowledge of Mr. Kelly’s guilt. The jurors said that Mr. Ray also displayed some sort of object that he claimed to be a \u2018magic key\u2019 referred to by several children.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unpersuaded that any of this mischief might have contaminated the jury\u2019s decision-making, Judge Marsh McLelland rejected Bob Kelly\u2019s motion for a new trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Aug. 14, 2013 \u201cFARMVILLE \u2013 A juror in the trial of Robert F. Kelly Jr. testified Wednesday that it was an \u2018amazing coincidence\u2019 that information from a magazine article appeared in his notes about jury deliberations. \u201cDennis T. Ray insisted during a hearing on Kelly’s bid for a new trial that he did not use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Aug. 14, 2013<\/p>\n