Christopher Conley has been denied a new trial by the Massachusetts Appeals Court, upholding his 2020 conviction for poisoning his 7-year-old daughter in 2015. Conley confessed to injecting drain cleaner into his daughter's cecostomy tube and administering a pain medication overdose. These actions caused severe abdominal injuries, which led to surgeries that removed significant portions of her intestines and bladder, per WWLP publication.
In his 2020 trial at Hampshire Superior Court, although claiming his confession was false, Conley received 16-18 years in prison on charges including attempted murder and assault and battery on a child. Following his conviction, Conley filed a motion seeking a new trial, arguing that judge Richard Carey erred in allowing jurors to hear that he had previously poisoned the child when they lived in Boston, and in excluding evidence about a conversation he had with his attorney in which he disavowed his confession, as reported by GazetteNet.
Conley’s motion for a new trial, which was denied by Carey in November 2021, led him to take his appeal to the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Their decision to uphold Carey's denial and affirm Conley's convictions was released earlier today, in a detailed 37-page document. Citing an analysis of Conley's arguments and the judge's resolution, the court saw no reason to repeat the judge's consideration, as reported in a WWLP article.
Additionally, the child's mother, Julie Gordon, who was formerly married to Conley, received a conviction for reckless endangerment of a child in June 2021. She was found guilty for her role in creating false symptoms that led her daughter to endure unnecessary medical procedures, as reported by GazetteNet.
