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Rape Charges Dropped
Thursday, December 10, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Richard Carruthers dropped all charges against William McCaffrey who had previously been convicted of raping Biurny Peguero Gonzalez who, after confessing to a priest confessed to perjury in August. Gonzales had met McCaffrey the night of her alleged rape in September 2005, however DNA samples taken from bite marks on her arm proved the marks to be from a woman and all of her injuries were later admitted to have been the result of a brawl with another female. The Judge said Thursday, “I want to convey to you my personal regret in having participated, though unknowingly, in the injustice committed to you…a catastrophe both for [McCaffrey] and for the criminal justice system.”
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