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14 Saturday, October 9, 2010 DAILY NEWS NYDailyNews.com 1 drunken cop, 1 death, 90 days BYWILLIAM SHERMAN DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER over the legal limit. Valnord's father and husband did approve the plea deal, however. "I want to praise your extraordinary compassion," Marrus told the Rev. Varius Valnord and widower SeniKassime. After sentencing, Kelly stood and mumbled aterse apology.

"My sympathies are extended to the victim's family," he said, looking atthe judge. Kelly, 32, pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter, with a A DRUNKEN-DRIVING cop was sentenced yesterday to just 90 days for killing a pastor's daughter partly because the victim had had a few drinks, the prosecutor and judge said. "The sentence may seem too light to some," Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Alan Marrus said of the deal ex-NYPD Officer Andrew Kelly got in the death of Andrew Kelly maximum sentence of seven years. In addition to the 90 days at Rikers, he got five years' probation and must get alcohol treatment. Because he started his jail term Sept.

24, Kelly willbe home forthe holidays. Kelly was driving home to Queens after a night of parrying when he slammed into Valnord while she was hailing a cab in Flat-lands on Sept. 27, 2009. "Nothing will bring my wife back," Kassime said after the hearing. "But I am satisfied with the sentence." wshermannydailynews.com Viomque Valnord, 32.

Marrus cited "the alcohol consumption of the victim and the fact that she walked out onto a rainy street" in the dark as reasons Kelly didn't get a harsher penalty. "She was at a wedding. She had been drinking," prosecutor Gayle Dampf said of the victim. The Valnord family's lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein, bristled atthe excuse. "You have a woman who had afew drinks at a wedding she's not driving and you have a police officer who was drunk, admittedly drunk, and he's driving and how is that equivalent?" he said.

Rubenstein is representing the family in a civil suit against the NYPD, which they claim tried to cover up the fact that Kelly was wiiMiiinir i EDITORIAL: It's pure junk justice. Workers continue to test Roosevelt Island tram cabin on Manhattan side, near E. 60th St. and Second Ave. Service is scheduled to resume in early November.

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TAMARA TUNIE, star of NBC's "Law Order: Special Victims Unit," will be the featured artist on the Daily News float in Monday's Columbus Day Parade. The parade with 35,000 marchers and more than 100 bands, floats and contingents kicks off at 11:30 a.m. and runs along Fifth Ave. from 47th to 72nd Sts. A million spectators are expected at the celebration, which marks Christopher Columbus' expedition to the Americas and honors Italian-American heritage.

Get all the details in a parade supplement in tomorrow's News. Daily News Staff.