The Legal Aid Society called on the Queens District Attorney’s Office to immediately consent to a recently filed vacatur motion regarding the case of Michael Robinson – a Legal Aid client who served 26 years of incarceration for a 1993 murder conviction – after the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) generated new a DNA result excluding Mr. Robinson as the source of the male DNA found under the fingernails of the decedent, Gwendolyn Samuels, reports the New York Daily News.

“Once we got these results, that should have been the end of it, and yet they’re (the Queens DA) still fighting to keep it,” said Harold Ferguson, Staff Attorney with the Criminal Appeals Bureau at The Legal Aid Society.