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Family's plea: Erase rape charges against our dad before he dies
With their father’s mind slipping away to dementia, the family of retired businessman Billy Joe Miles wants one thing: charges of rape, sodomy and bribery expunged to restore his good name before he dies.
The prosecution last month announced plans to dismiss the indictment of the former University of Kentucky board chairman after his accuser's stories about being threatened and targeted by vandals proved untrue.
But Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear’s office says it won’t dismiss the case permanently, or “with prejudice,” as the legal term is known. That means Miles, a once-prominent Owensboro civic leader, is ineligible for expungement.
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Terry Sebastian, a spokesman for Beshear’s office, declined to say whether it still hopes to prosecute Miles. Nor would he say if prosecutors still believe the 30-year-old hom Miles farm supply.