ok, Thank you. I appreciate your reply and that you do understand.

Regardless of the original complaint, lies, exaggerated police statement or otherwise, the actual truth is I wasn't raped… but a...

Actually you seem to still not get it, or maybe you don't want to understand. But it is a huge deal, if the defense had won the Sirois hearing my husband would not be in prison right now. Literally....

Thank you for explaining that for some of these people. It's a definite "legal" term, a ruling given by the judge.
I was at every court date I knew about, even if my husband was not brought over...

I was available and did testify. Legally unavailable is a legal term, which gave the DA the ability to use hearsay.
They didn't like that I "changed" my story.
My story never included rape or...

There is a lot more. The written statement (by the detective) was admissible b/c they held a Sirois hearing, in which I was declared legally unavailable. Meaning hearsay was allowed at trial.

My question involves criminal law for the state of: New York
My boyfriend(now husband) was convicted of raping me, I wasn't/he didn't. Even though I told the DA that it never happened and they had...