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These two stories today just jostled together unpleasantly in my mind.
Convicted at 17, prisoner, now 53, exonerated in rape; jury never told blood didn't match crimescene
[As he vacated the conviction,] Judge Darryl Derbigny expressed anger that blood and sperm evidence that could have cleared him never made it to to the jury.
Family's fury as judge says Hamptons hit-and-run driver, [now] 20, will serve NO jail time under plea deal for killing 18-year-old before fleeing the scene
Devesh 'Devu' Samtani died three days after the crash on Old Stone Highway in Amagansett on August 10, 2021 where he was struck by speeding driver Daniel Campbell, 20, who fled the scene. At the time, Campbell had nine people in his 2012 Honda Pilot, including his younger sister.
Omar Alamanzar-Paramio, the attorney for the Samtani family, told DailyMail.com that when the defendant hit Devesh, that is the point most people would have stopped. He instead continued to drive.
'One can understand the panic in the moment, but the defendant then decided three separate times over the course of the next few hours to flee,' he said.
'The first time was just shortly after running Devesh over when a few of the passengers demanded to get out of the car and go back to where the accident occurred.
'Instead of going back to ... the accident scene, he took off. Once he got home, he could have at that point called the police, but instead switched vehicles and drove off again.'
'Hours later, instead of deciding to call the police or go back to the scene, we learned that he drove to meet a friend and was researching public transportation to get out of New York State.
Convicted at 17, prisoner, now 53, exonerated in rape; jury never told blood didn't match crimescene
[As he vacated the conviction,] Judge Darryl Derbigny expressed anger that blood and sperm evidence that could have cleared him never made it to to the jury.
Family's fury as judge says Hamptons hit-and-run driver, [now] 20, will serve NO jail time under plea deal for killing 18-year-old before fleeing the scene
Devesh 'Devu' Samtani died three days after the crash on Old Stone Highway in Amagansett on August 10, 2021 where he was struck by speeding driver Daniel Campbell, 20, who fled the scene. At the time, Campbell had nine people in his 2012 Honda Pilot, including his younger sister.
Omar Alamanzar-Paramio, the attorney for the Samtani family, told DailyMail.com that when the defendant hit Devesh, that is the point most people would have stopped. He instead continued to drive.
'One can understand the panic in the moment, but the defendant then decided three separate times over the course of the next few hours to flee,' he said.
'The first time was just shortly after running Devesh over when a few of the passengers demanded to get out of the car and go back to where the accident occurred.
'Instead of going back to ... the accident scene, he took off. Once he got home, he could have at that point called the police, but instead switched vehicles and drove off again.'
'Hours later, instead of deciding to call the police or go back to the scene, we learned that he drove to meet a friend and was researching public transportation to get out of New York State.
