Melvin D. Glass of Ravena, N.Y., a retired Queens judge, died June 14 of Parkinson’s disease. He was 78.

Mr. Glass was appointed a Manhattan assistant district attorney in 1958 by Frank S. Hogan. During his tenure he assisted in exonerating a falsely accused man in the 1963 murder of two young professional women in their Upper East Side apartment, which the media dubbed the “Career Girls Murders.”