Brooklyn lawyer arrested in connection with Manhattan rapes from 4 years ago

Sunday, January 6, 2019
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Police arrested Brooklyn lawyer Rashaun Kelley, 35, for a series of attacks four years ago in the East Village, Lower East Side and Harlem, in what a prosecutor called a 'one-man sex assault spree.'

One of his alleged victims spoke exclusively to Eyewitness News back then, saying he tried to take her clothes off, but she fought him off.
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Police say the three attacks were part of a larger pattern of five assaults, and Kelley remains a suspect in them.

Kelley's attorney, a law school classmate, poked holes into the case, and was questioning the way he was picked out of a lineup. His lawyer says police have the wrong man.

Kelley lives in East Flatbush with his brother, who is an NYPD officer. His father is a high-ranking member of the sanitation department, and was in the courtroom on Saturday.

Neither his father nor his attorney took questions from reporters.
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Kelley pleaded not guilty at his arraignment and is due back in court on January 10th. Bail was set at $200,000.



Kelley's legal practice focuses on business, corporate and securities law.

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