NY woman’s conviction for fatally poisoning her chiropractor boss is overturned

Talk astir a large adjustment.

A New York appeals tribunal has overturned the conviction of a pistillate accused of fatally poisoning her chiropractor boss — who was besides the parent of her ex-boyfriend — astir a decennary ago.

On Friday, the Supreme Court of the New York State Appellate Division ruled that immoderate grounds utilized against Kaitlyn Conley successful tribunal had been improperly obtained.

Conley, 31, was sentenced to 23 years successful prison aft she was convicted of manslaughter for the July 2015 poisoning decease of Dr. Mary Louise Yoder.

Conley, who worked arsenic a receptionist successful Yoder’s bureau successful the Village of Whitesboro, is accused of poisoning her then-boss with an anti-inflammatory cause called colchicine.

She went connected proceedings doubly for second-degree murder, but her archetypal proceedings ended with a hung jury. At a retrial successful 2019, she was acquitted of execution but recovered blameworthy of second-degree manslaughter.

In May 2024 a Rochester State Appellate Court granted Conley the accidental to appeal.

On Friday, a five-judge sheet of the appeals tribunal recovered that a hunt warrant obtained by investigators didn’t let them to hunt Conley’s cellphone.

The search, conducted by a cybersecurity firm, led to the words “poison” and “colchicine,” according to the court. It besides showed an email relationship utilized to get the substance.

“A person’s cellphone present contains astatine slightest arsenic overmuch idiosyncratic and backstage accusation arsenic their location and, thus, indiscriminate searches of cellphones cannot beryllium permitted,” the determination reads, successful part.

Conley, who would person been eligible for parole successful 2037, tin present beryllium acceptable escaped — unless the Oneida County District Attorney’s Office decides to re-indict her.

As of Saturday afternoon, she was inactive listed arsenic an inmate astatine Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.

Conley’s communicative was portrayed successful the ABC News existent transgression docuseries “Little Miss Innocent: Passion. Poison. Prison.,” which began streaming connected Hulu successful September 2024.

With News Wire Services

Originally Published: February 1, 2025 astatine 7:45 PM EST