New York’s highest court has taken up the case of a man convicted of burglary based largely on forensic blood evidence destroyed by floodwaters from Superstorm Sandy.
Peter Austin was convicted in 2013 of two break-ins in the Bronx after his DNA was linked to blood found at the crime scene. Prosecutors were able to introduce the record of the blood-test results although the physical blood evidence had been destroyed in floodwaters.
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