Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, criticizing a trial judge for accepting “a fraud perpetrated” on the court, has ruled out retrying a Far Rockaway man who was convicted of murder 15 years ago, calling the case “unprosecutable.”
“Sadly,” Mr. Brown said in a statement yesterday, Acting Supreme Court Justice Joel L. Blumenfeld (See Profile) had “embraced the fraud” when he set aside the conviction of Kareem Bellamy in 2008 after the judge found that the cumulative effect of newly discovered evidence would have likely led a jury to reach a different verdict.
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