Three Delaware County men who were convicted in a 25-year-old murder case have been granted a new trial.
FOX 29's Chris O'Connell reports the Innocence Project and local attorneys claim new DNA evidence refutes the conviction. Derrick Chappell, 41, Morton Johnson, 42, and Samuel Grasty, 46, were teenagers in 1997 when they were convicted of the October beating death of 70-year-old Henrietta Nickens inside her Chester apartment.
The Delaware County District Attorney's Office previously pushed back by saying that none of the evidence found at the home would likely reverse the outcome of the verdicts. "Just because there is an absence of DNA of a defendant at a crime scene doesn't mean they are innocent," District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said last July. "I think people who watch too much CSI or TV don't quite understand that people can commit vile acts and not leave DNA at the scene.
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