Political expedience?
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Then, last year, the right shred of evidence came along in the form of a DNA sample from
a rape-murder committed in 1999.
It matched DNA found under the fingernails of Yarbough’s mother, indicating that
the same killer probably committed both crimes. In 1999, Yarbough and Wilson were
in prison and couldn’t have committed the second murder.
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Apparently the DNA couldn’t and didn’t matched either of the convicted but yet they were found guilty.
The DA is looking at some other convictions apparently for some reason.
-—Thompson came into office in January with promises to restore justice to the wrongfully
convicted. This case is part of a review of Brooklyn killings from the 1980s and early 1990s.—
The article may be a bit confusing. The DNA that later exonerated them wasn’t used in the trial, and it only came up several years later when it was cross-matched from another case.