The Second Department, in an unsigned ruling unanimously reversing Acting Nassau County Supreme Court Justice George Peck, said that disclosure of problems at the lab would not have made a difference if a woman convicted of aggravated driving while intoxicated and first-degree vehicular assault was retried.
October 04, 2012 at 12:00 AM
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A Brooklyn appellate court has ruled that a trial judge was wrong to grant a new trial for a woman who challenged her conviction based on what she claimed was newly-discovered evidence of missteps at the then-shuttered Nassau County crime laboratory.
The Appellate Division, Second Department, unanimously reversed Acting Nassau County Supreme Court Justice George Peck’s March 2011 decision to grant a new trial to Erin Marino and instead reinstated the guilty verdict against her.
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