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Defense attorney Cheryl Coleman-Walley has been retired for about a year and a half, but she said she still thinks about the West case a lot.
“It’s just a case I’ll never forget, and probably won’t stop being angry,” she said. “I felt like that nobody wanted to hear the other side of the story.”
Coleman-Walley, who went professionally by Cheryl Coleman, said prosecutors, right from the start, set the stage for an unfair trial.
“They announced the results of all of (West’s) blood tests, knowing that it was going to be inadmissible, and they later acknowledged that it going to be inadmissible. It’s a violation of ethics rules,” she said.
Prosecutors opted not to use results of the blood test, which found cocaine, Ectasy and marijuana in West’s system, because of a procedural issue with how the search warrant was obtained.
In addition, Coleman felt that evidence that West had the right of way was ignored.
“It was just the kind of feeling where you felt you were banging your head against the wall,” she said. “I thought it was a horrible feeling, when he went to prison and it’s just something I’ll never forget.”
West
West, 29, is inmate 17A2471 at Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County. He will have a parole hearing in December. The earliest he could be released is in April 2022.