Charles Farrar: Last-gasp appeal of sex-abuse case claims prosecution misconduct

Nine years into a 145-year sentence for sexual abuse -- a crime that his alleged victim insists never happened -- Charles Farrar has now filed what may be his last, best hope for freedom. [...] In 2002, Farrar was found guilty by an Arapahoe County jury of multiple counts of sexual assault on a minor, his stepdaughter Sacha, who accused him and her mother of forcing her into sexual encounters from the age of eleven until she was fifteen. There was no physical evidence in the case and minimal investigation by authorities, who relied almost entirely on Sacha's testimony. But a few months later, after refusing to testify against her mother, Sacha returned to court and recanted her story, saying she'd fabricated the entire tale in order to go live with her grandparents.

source: Article 'Charles Farrar: Last-gasp appeal of sex-abuse case claims prosecution misconduct' by Alan Prendergast; blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/10/charles_farrar_sex_abuse_appeal.php; Denver Westword Blogs; 3 October 2011