I find some of the arguments by Allysma fishy. I don't want to go over all the details, and I don't have sympathy for Ajay to spend hours here defending him. But I live in SF Bay Area. The general perception here is that people in Sacramento or central valley have no sympathy for foreigners or people of foreign origins. They are jealous of foreigners who they think are superwealthy and live in bay area. If you want to convict a foreigner, go to those areas.

These jurors are also willing to believe anything-- a foreigner , who doesn't believe in their own religion, must be someone decadent. Can he rape his own daughter? Yes, sure why not, he is a damn foreigner, a nonwhite, a Hindoo. Never mind the victim repeatedly lied about it, a phone call is enough to convict someone, so much so that he would spend 70+ years in jails. In other words, the crime committed  by Ajay is something in the league of homicide. This man is suddenly deemed so dangerous to the society that he would be better dead (or inside the jail) than outside. Never mind he was out of the jail for six years prior to this conviction. I am surprised the jury didn't decide to hang him, given America's capital punishment rate. Since it costs 50+ thousand dollars per year per inmate in this country, and california is budget constrained, that would have been a better solution if the juries were a bit well educated. (btw, I wonder how educated was the jury. I doubt they have some decent degrees.)

I don't come here to defend Ajay. But I find the evidences  iffy. "Either Ajay or his relatives" tried to block the girl's reentry in the USA[but we send "ajay" to gallows], "we convicted him on the basis of a phone call" (never mind we don't understand his language and it was through translation), Ajay was behind the breakup in her relationship ("what kind of boyfriend is that? At least, it is the news for me for someone to break up affairs because of adopted father.") and the result: a man would go to jail for 70-250 years for this. There are probabilities alive that this man was too strict a father (like all Madhesi fathers in Nepal), the jurors were too racists to even try to see truth, too biased to believe worst about everything, the girl was too young to understand the consequences of her action on others ( like in that movie, Atonement ).

Well, hail America, let's enjoy it as long as we are not in jail. This is where a Nepali always dreams to come in. I think Nepali textbooks should discuss every angle of this case to have a lesson about an entry into a new culture...